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And he confirms his own religiosity, deploring the "hollow secularism" that supposedly afflicts the unenlightened.
Given that hookworm afflicts only the world's most impoverished, a major hurdle for the development of the Na -ASP-2 Hookworm Vaccine is its small commercial market.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a significant, chronic disease that afflicts 1% of the general population in most countries [ 1 ] . Joint damage typically occurs before patients are diagnosed, and most of the joint destruction occurs within the first 2 years of diagnosis [ 2 ] . Therapeutic drugs such as sulfasalazine and methotrexate (MTX) only slow the progression of the disease, suggesting that these drugs fail to adequately quell the underlying pathophysiology of RA [ 3 ] .
If I were he, I think I'd respond by saying that excessive prosperity is now a problem for just a few--and that the next president should see to it that it afflicts as many of us as possible.
But the winner's curse afflicts auction bidders whenever there is uncertainty over the current or eventual value of the item on the block.