They are the only members of any branch that hold their office for life.

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"If you look at the tree of life, nearly all of our microbes, and thus our antibiotics, come from one branch on that tree, " says Barton.

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Trees, clouds, numerous patterns that we see in daily life--all turned out to be fractal in nature, described by a branch of mathematics that Mandelbrot had started.

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The task of assessing American design's place in the world, and in everyday life, went more or less by default to the Cooper-Hewitt museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, located in what had been Andrew Carnegie's mansion on Fifth Avenue.

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And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor.

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