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Legal Services Corp. spokesman Eric Kleiman contended that Atlas and his board "have had ample opportunity to make their case to us."
(vii) Normal infection environment: As we have contended, a major benefit of this approach in viral reverse genetics is that one can start with standard wild type virus (or even a relatively uncharacterized field isolate) with no requirements of recombinant expression, and thus, the cellular milieu is only minimally perturbed, if at all.
Novak's Blaxsploitation: Last week, Capital Gang ster Robert Novak contended that black Americans' post-bellum achievements represent the slave trade's oft-overlooked silver lining.
Titled Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution , the book contended that the molecular machinery of living things works too well to have been produced by chance alone.
The 19 th edition was released in 1997 but was recalled in April of last year because of an uproar from breeders who contended that the book's "breed profiles" perpetrated pernicious stereotypes.