BTW, if you all have never read The Hot Zone, by Richard Preston, it is deeply worth it.
If the government had any sense, they wouldn't waste their money on stupid wars and missile shields, they'd fund the crap out of defenses against bio-threats like hemorrhagic fevers and other ultra-plagues. There are some mighty, mighty scary things out there, folks, and I hope they never again come a-knockin' on our door in the US of A.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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