Word: subsistance
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Tuberculosis strikes all segments of society, but hardest among the poor who live in crowded, unsanitary conditions and subsist on inadequate diets. While the annual rate is only about 14 cases per 100,000 among the population as a whole, in Harlem, for example, it climbs to about 64 per 100,000. Alcoholics and drug addicts are especially vulnerable because their immune systems may have been weakened. Found in the bodies of about 7% of the populace, the bug makes only a small proportion of them...
...living may have been responsible for the branching out. Australopithecus africanus, straining to augment its food supply in the flat grasslands, began to eat meat?probably obtaining it not by hunting, but by scavenging the kills left behind by large predators. Australopithecus robustus, on the other hand, continued to subsist largely on seeds and nuts. Both eventually died out, unable to compete successfully with the large predators or with Homo. who was coming into...
...Indians, most of whom now reside on three reservations in northern Maine that cover 22,000 acres, subsist largely on low-paying jobs and welfare-like many whites. Originally, they demanded more than 10 million acres, or one-half of the state. But Justice puts the probable extent of their supportable claim at 5 million acres. Justice is still researching the historical ownership of some 3 million additional acres. The Indians agreed to put off claims to 2 million acres of valuable coastal property (where 40% of Maine's 1 million non-Indians live) in return for money...
...middle of the Penobscot River in northern Maine lives a band of four hundred Native Americans. The island, dubbed Indian Island to notify the tourists, is a picturesque spot for a Sunday drive. But behind the plywood wigwams that advertise "REAL MOCCASINS" and "REST ROOMS" the Penobscot Indians subsist in tattered shelters that the tourists never manage to discover. For the Penobscot are among the poorest of the Native American tribes...
Privately, the author has observed that Rome fell because of "the inevitable effect of immoderate greatness," adding that the question should not be why the empire collapsed, but how it managed to subsist for so long. Such epigrams amuse, but do not edify; for fuller explanations, the reader will have to wait for the concluding volumes of this profound and ambitious work...