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And he confirms his own religiosity, deploring the "hollow secularism" that supposedly afflicts the unenlightened.
In 1996 Bradley was diagnosed with atrial fibrillation--a heart rhythm problem that afflicts former President Bush and about 2 million other Americans.
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.
It's true that El Niño afflicts the West and Gulf Coasts with nasty winters, and that it decimates the salmon population.
But the winner's curse afflicts auction bidders whenever there is uncertainty over the current or eventual value of the item on the block.