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British press coverage of the crisis was generally pessimistic, with the Times ' editorial Friday saying that Northern Ireland finds itself once again "at a melancholy crossroads under a lowering sky" and that its future is now "a space colonised by fear."
Both environments are rich in proteases, but nevertheless are colonised by a variety of microbial pathogens.