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When he walks outside his souk, walks into a pharmacy for heart medicine that can prevent the blood in his arteries from clotting, he confronts the fact that, despite a growing epidemic that currently accounts for 82 percent of all deaths in Egypt, it is the medicines that can address these conditions that counterfeiters, ever the evil geniuses they are, have decided to target.

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Galvani's approach of probing the nervous system with electrodes has remained state-of-the-art until today, despite a number of drawbacks.

Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.

And, despite being cursed with my athletic inability, he plays soccer.

We are missing the story of Fareeda, a music teacher, a piano teacher, in Sarajevo, who made sure that she kept the music school open every single day in the four years of besiege in Sarajevo and walked to that school, despite the snipers shooting at that school and at her, and kept the piano, the violin, the cello playing the whole duration of the war, with students wearing their gloves and hats and coats.

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