Word: resistance
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...your happiness or misery. Work at something you enjoy, and that's worthy of your time and talent. Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know." Her boss Rudi Cavataio found the poster at Target and couldn't resist, but Lori hasn't had time to hang it up yet. "Maybe sometime I'll succeed in getting that success sign up," she jokes...
...would press hard for concessions. Presumably those would start with closing the archaeological tunnel that had touched off the violence and follow with a firm date for redeploying Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Hebron, a step already six months overdue. He was more than ready to resist...
...troop members from approaching--are similarly intimidated or chased off. Even males that reserve their aggression solely for one another find their behavior utterly unrewarded. The whole purpose of such mano a mano combat is to secure breeding rights to females, but since bonobo females are powerful enough to resist even the strongest alpha male, the results of the contest mean nothing...
When Arawaks began to resist in large numbers, the Spanish easily defeated them with their superior weaponry. Prisoners were hanged or burned to death. The rest of the Indians were rounded up for use as slave labor, some on estates and some in mines. They were worked so mercilessly that one-third died from exhaustion within eight months. In desperation, many Arawaks began to commit suicide, and some mothers even killed their own children in desperation. Those who ran away were hunted down and killed...
...fair bet that Adam, Eve, Cain and Abel sniffled, sneezed and complained of stuffy noses. In fact, rhinovirus, above, with its more than 100 identified strains, has probably been around even longer than humans. With age comes wisdom, which in the case of this virus means the ability to resist every concoction--from chicken soup to zinc lozenges--people throw at it. So far, modern medicine has met its match. Still the best treatment: aspirin, rest and lots of fluids...