Its job was to review this intelligence to help digest it for me and other policymakers, to help us develop Defense Department strategy for the war on terrorism.

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And we set up a small team to help digest the intelligence that already existed on this very broad subject.

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Or, to be more precise, the bacteria that live in the gut to help digest food and, it turns out, perform a host of other important functions.

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The upshot was that the fat-retaining livers were rich in a variety of proteins known to help the body digest and store food.

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Where I live, in the U.K., American gray squirrels are exterminating native red squirrels with the help of a parapox virus and a better ability to digest acorns.

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