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Today, that infection, known as KPC, has spread to every state but three, and to South America, Europe and the Middle East.
The gene that creates that resistance, known as NDM, has now spread from India into China, Asia, Africa, Europe and Canada, and the United States.
A project chartered by the British government known as the Review on Antimicrobial Resistance estimates that the worldwide toll right now is 700,000 deaths a year.
Genital mutilation is horrible and not known by American women, but in some countries, many countries, when a child is born that's a girl, very soon in her life, her genitals are completely cut away by a so-called cutter who has a razor blade and, in a non-sterilized way, they remove the exterior parts of a woman's genitalia.
So this is another very serious problem, and the basic problem is prostitution, because there's not a whorehouse in America that's not known by the local officials, the local policemen, or the chief of police or the mayor and so forth.
For a long period of time, we believed in a natural ranking order in the world around us, also known as the great chain of being, or "Scala naturae" in Latin, a top-down structure that normally starts with God at the very top, followed by angels, noblemen, common people, animals, and so on.
This idea was actually based on Aristotle's ontology, which classified all things known to man in a set of opposing categories, like the ones you see behind me.
But over time, interestingly enough, this concept adopted the branching schema of a tree in what became known as the Porphyrian tree, also considered to be the oldest tree of knowledge.
And finally, of course, also a very popular scientific metaphor, we can see trees being used to map all species known to man.
And we have never known how to do this technically, so this slide is a fake slide.
AS: And I was interested in the question, but I was actually much more interested in Stacey's motivation for asking it, particularly since I'd never known Stacey to have a boyfriend.
It's also known as a copyright trap.
I had never known this.
Take the Lebanese Hezbollah, known for its violent confrontation against Israel.
Similarly, the Palestinian Hamas, known for its suicide attacks against Israel, also runs the Gaza Strip since 2007.
I've been known to mess with things like chain link fencing.
Your brain responds to stressful stimuli by releasing hormones known as corticosteroids, which activate a process of threat-detection and threat-response in the amygdala.
There are more genes expressed that are known to be involved in the formation of new memories.
This has been known for half a century.
That is actually twice the number of people that have been killed by Ebola in the nearly four decades that we've known about it.
We've known about Ebola since 1976.
We've known what it's capable of.
I had known him when I was a graduate student at Berkeley.
In my work over the years, I've known many people who were ready to go, ready to die.
And the key ingredients are known: policy, education and training, systems, bricks and mortar.
It was started with about 12 of my friends, people that I had known for years that were writers in the neighborhood.
The moment you admit to loving someone, you admit to having a lot to lose, and it's true that these questions do provide a mechanism for getting to know someone quickly, which is also a mechanism for being known, and I think this is the thing that most of us really want from love: to be known, to be seen, to be understood.
And that means we have to leave about two-thirds of the known resources of fossil fuels in the ground.
"How can Selasi claim to come from Ghana," one such critic asked, "when she's never known the indignities of traveling abroad on a Ghanian passport?"
In May 1820, five men known as the Cato Street Conspirators were executed in London for plotting to assassinate members of the British government.
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