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We were surprised to discover that virtually all of the transcriptional response to L. monocytogenes infection of these cells results from what is apparently the initial interaction of the bacteria with the cell surface, regardless of virulence phenotype.
One woman comments to the paper that she was "surprised by how clean-cut and how educated" the Promise Keepers were.
Several years ago, I wrote a long essay of my own about Reagan, the only time I've tried to write anything serious about him, for a presidential reference book; and I was surprised by how much more sympathetic I was to him than I had once been.
"They should not now be surprised if, even in the obscurity of Littleton and Brixton, they have to fight some even littler Hitlers, too."
The Los Angeles Times , Washington Post , and New York Times all lead with the raucous reception the top Clinton foreign policy figures were surprised to receive when they appeared at a town-hall-style discussion of Iraq in Columbus, Ohio.