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As I listened to this researcher—and to the other medical whistleblowers that I continued to interview—it occurred to me that each whistleblower was like the proverbial blind man with a hand on the elephant.
The first FDNY fatality of the day occurred at approximately 9:30, when a civilian landed on and killed a fireman near the intersection of West and Liberty streets.
This could have either occurred during the primary γ-proteobacterial endosymbiosis, which gave rise to the mitochondrion, or as a result of a subsequent transfer from some other bacterial source.
Half the nation's increase in poverty in the 1990s, when the number of poor jumped 30 percent, occurred in California, and nearly 25 percent of the nation's poverty increase occurred in Los Angeles County alone.
The paper reports that Blair later would not confirm that the handshake occurred, and that he had arranged that no pictures were taken of it.