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An important impact, if global warming continues, will be on the breadbasket of our nation and the world, the Midwest and Great Plains, which are expected to become prone to extreme droughts, worse than the Dust Bowl, within just a few decades, if we let global warming continue.

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Now I'm not going to belabor this point, but studies do show that, as investors, women are much less prone to taking reckless risks than men, precisely because, as we've already heard, women tend not to suffer from overconfidence in the same way that men do.

Now "kindness" might sound like a very mild word, and it's prone to its own abundant cliche.

And small groups are more prone to accidents and bad luck.

After all, they are the most perishable of their kind, prone to injury and very slow to heal due to our health care system.

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