To protect his family during the SARS outbreak, Dr. Lee moved out of his apartment and lived in self-imposed quarantine for months while treating patients, seeing his wife and young son only once a day through the grille of a metal door when they came to drop off his dinner.

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Once young salmon get to the ocean, scientists have only a vague idea where they go, and an incomplete understanding of why some years they thrive and some years they starve.

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Though he has stood only once (unsuccessfully) for elected office, he is young at 52, and may well hanker after a top job, one day, in government.

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Blyleven only won 20 games once over a 22 year career and never finished above third in the Cy Young voting.

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Many young people are now reared to speak only English, and one teen-age student told me that even adults who once spoke only Tamil, the local language, were beginning to speak Tanglish with their children.

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