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The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for

The long, cold Minnesota winters instilled in me a fascination for exotic far off places I aspired toward a career in tropical diseases and world health problems. – Peter Agre

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Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined a laboratory to work on this. – Peter Agre

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Medical
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My brother Jim and I spent many wonderful summers working on dairy farms in Wisconsin owned by Moms cousins, and as members of our local Boy Scout troop. – Peter Agre

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mom
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Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry. – Peter Agre

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dad
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I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them. – Gary Locke

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Health

If youre too embarrassed and want to hide behind your computer screen, thats what this is for. Its about building confidence and thats what U by Kotex does. Girls owning their bodies and health. – Khloe Kardashian

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Health

Better understanding of the natural world not only enhances all of us as human beings, but can also be harnessed for the better good, leading to improved health and quality of life. – Paul Nurse

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Health

Emergency health care for illegal aliens along the southwestern border is already costing area hospitals $200 million a year, with perhaps another $100 million in extended care costs. – Gary Miller

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Health

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A man can do all things if he but wills them. – Leon Battista Alberti

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Will, Willpower

I have this extraordinary life during the day, and then I get to come home to my sweet husband who loves to cook with me. I have a nice glass of wine, he has some scotch, we chat, we cook, and we hang out with the dog. I have an absolute dream life. – Rachael Ray

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Home

Beauty has a lot to do with character. – Kevyn Aucoin

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Beauty

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod. – Aristophanes

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Travel