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How about two bio profs in a liberal arts college <strike>when I started working there</strike> twenty-some years ago? Too embarrassed to say where...

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The main qualification for entering this school, would be not wanting to go there.

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"It could be a whole series....with a lot of complaints."

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You earn major language nerd cred for that. Did you know that German has two subjunctive moods?

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Were you there? / Ken Ham

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I did not know that. My HS German only got to one, I guess.

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Some of those areas have great research opportunities because genetically transmitted diseases that have disappeared or been controlled elsewhere in the US are still found in LA families. Also, tropical diseases. Good training if you want to practice medicine in Bangladesh or Malaysia.

Medical degrees from the top schools are great if you want to do lab research or develop new patentable meds, or if you want to become a high-end specialist. But for straight-up family practice, I expect the med schools in Grenada, Mumbai, and Baton Rouge are perfectly adequate.

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At this point, no one is amazed anymore. Some of us are disappointed; some are elated; nobody's amazed.

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New Orleans is wonderful, full of decay and terrific food and gorgeous old warehouses converted to art galleries and amazing mansions and beautiful olive-drab streetcars running down the median of St Charles St in the Garden District.

Oh, and on 4 July 1900 a man named Louis Armstrong was born there, to a prostitute in a dirt-floored shack, and one day years later he gave a command performance at the Royal Albert Hall and introduced a number by leaning into the microphone and saying, "This one's for you, Rex."

Trying to look at the good side here.

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you know what? it's friday night, i'm a little drunk and there's no way in fucking hell i'm reading that crap.

i will however cite the post as gospel proof of the ignorance of wingtards..

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Ha ha, "past tense." It's disappearing from English; just listen to almost anybody on teevee, particularly sportsball announcers: "If he catches that, it's a touchdown!"

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And no transgressing the urban growth boundaries, puleez!

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Now, in print that should be CTHHL (the Pentagrammaton).

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Single-stream == jerbs.

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It's actually the subjunctive that has gone missing from sportsball talk.

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Thanks! That's a much better documentary than "2016".

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