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President Nixon declared war on cancer in 1971, but we soon discovered there are many kinds of cancer, most of them fiendishly resistant to therapy, and it is only in the last 10 years that effective, viable therapies have come to seem real.

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But they are also very effective in deflecting our path.

Now to make sure that this was no reaction of the fly to a flash it could see, Susana did a simple but brutally effective experiment.

Torture, rape and ethnic cleansing have become highly effective, if often non-lethal, weapons in civil war.

And of course, if you want people to play by the rules, you still need an effective system of monitoring and enforcement, for as we've discovered, you can trust, but you also need to verify.

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