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Isolated colonies were obtained at 100 ug/ml hygromycin and were passaged and diluted to extinction.
Writing Thursday in the Jerusalem Post, Yossi Ben-Aharon, a former director-general in the Israeli prime minister's office, proffered the Monica Lewinsky case as an example of why Benjamin Netanyahu should convene an emergency conference of world Jewish leaders in Jerusalem to adopt "an urgent plan to save Diaspora Jewry from extinction."
The existing tobacco program, however, looks as though it will survive--which is even more notable, considering that last year Congress enacted legislation putting most other farm subsidies on the path to extinction.
Some analysts argued that the research supports two politically important theories: 1) Humans have had so little time to diverge genetically that the differences between human "races" are trivial, and 2) our common ancestors came from Africa (Cro-Magnons) and drove the Europeans (Neanderthals) to extinction.
A key such measure is light "extinction," a measure of the amount of light scattered and absorbed by particles suspended in air.