"In the past I was still young and went a bit overboard, but now over the past three years I've managed to keep it more under control, " he says.

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Gavin Melaugh flicked on from a Scates cross and Kelbie, despite failing to control the ball, managed to prod it past keeper Philip Matthews.

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It has managed to escape that control, and left humanity with a genetic weakness that another pathogen, HIV, has exploited.

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It required a bureaucratic struggle lasting several years before he managed to regain control over his file and land a good-paying job with a foreign firm in Beijing.

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But the company's backdown also raises another possibility: that, battered by its rising unpopularity and nervous about hostile legislation, the managed-care industry is fast retreating from the task it was put into place to perform: to control health-care costs.

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