They came to Long Island for the season, or for a summer weekend away from the disease and clamour.

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Target Ovarian Cancer, which conducted a mapping exercise of the disease this summer, also welcomed the promise of early tests.

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Even malaria appears to have originally been a chimp disease, Wolfe and various collaborators reported this summer in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

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To get around the obvious challenge of longevity for a show about a character with a terminal disease, each season of the television series will represent a season of the year, beginning with summer.

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