Older medications such as amantadine are no longer effective, and common folk remedies such as oscillococcinum are useless.

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And it's not just the common folk who regret their tattoos.

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Their advanced training in accounting and economics allowed them to know things about the markets that common folk like me could not possibly know or understand.

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Until the emergence of public baths in the 17th century, nearly all the baths for the common folk were provided by Buddhist temples (the rich and powerful, of course, had their own baths).

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Candidates from both parties invariably make appearances at eateries in states like Iowa, Ohio, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania, trying to prove that they can relate to the common folk by eating a burger and slurping down a milkshake.

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In Rio de Janeiro a populist governor brought in a law obliging the main state university to reserve 40% of its places for blacks and half for graduates of state high schools (which, unlike state universities, are for common folk).

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On "Stuck on the Treadmill, " for example, he plays a beefy riff in unison with Mr. Prodaniuk, a technique that found its way into early heavy metal, but which Mr. Thompson said is common in Celtic folk.

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Moreover, it is also known that the pACC-amygdala link is often out of kilter in schizophrenia, and that schizophrenia is more common among city dwellers than country folk.

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