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Some problems refuse to go away. PESTICIDES containing chlorine--now banned but commonly used in the '70s and '80s for termite control--continue to contaminate treated homes. A small study finds that even today the chemical vapors seep through basement walls...
...most researchers. The skin is an excellent barrier against all kinds of microbes, not just HIV. And even if two opposing boxers suffer cuts at the same time, that doesn't mean transmission is inevitable. Cuts bleed out, making it difficult for the other person's blood to seep in. Furthermore, healthy athletes don't usually have that much HIV in their blood anyway; in the first decade of infection, most of the virus is trapped in the lymph nodes...
...from the blood and trapped it in the lymph nodes. HIV doesn't lie dormant, however. It still churns out copies of itself. But the damage is limited because the immune system has activated two powerful defense mechanisms: antibodies, which surge through the blood neutralizing any HIV particles that seep out of the lymph nodes, and a second group of specialized white blood cells, called killer T cells, which attack and destroy infected tissue...
...would be between the two baby seats," Towle says. "The car took 5 minutes 52 seconds to sink. And 2 minutes and 10 or 11 seconds into it, you saw the water. It was agonizingly slow. And then a bubble floats up and you begin to see the water seep in -- it had a greenish brown tinge -- until the entire compartment was filled. The jurors leaned into the television monitor as the water became visible. Some just lowered their heads and shook them back and forth, as if to say 'No, no.'"Susan Smith Page
This passive nation can be transformed by a brave government. A country founded on individualism and democracy should not seep into the depths of indifference...