What this means for the bigger picture is the disappearance of the old system that marshaled and conditioned our political allegiances and life experiences.

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As a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, he studied multiple sclerosis, a genetically conditioned disease in which the immune system mistakes nerve tissue for a foreign invader and systematically destroys it.

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The next decade will see the construction of a city-wide rail system and air-conditioned stadiums, so matches can be played during the scorching hot summer, as well as an entirely modular stadium in Doha Port that will be disassembled after the World Cup and sent on to the next host country.

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Dubbed Air Sarko One, the new jet features a double bedroom, an air-conditioned smoking room and an anti-missile system.

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We have been conditioned by experience to expect a panic when we hear of stress in the banking system, and in that context Europe may just be a distraction to the real threat facing the market.

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That was good enough for Mr. Cuomo, who had earlier conditioned hundreds of millions of dollars in state aid on a final agreement on an evaluation system, a threshold not yet crossed.

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