Mason Crosby, the Packers' kicker, ultimately sent the Giants (6-6) to their fourth straight loss, nailing a 31-yard field goal and sending his teammates onto the field like they'd won the Super Bowl maybe because the intensity of this game was the highest the defending Super Bowl champions have faced thus far.

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The field observation is that, within Africa, one of the two best predictors of the intensity of the epidemic in any given place is the prevalence of circumcision.

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The four classes of extremes -- high heat, heavy precipitation and floods, duration and intensity of droughts and extremes related to higher sea levels -- have changed in the last 50 years, Field said.

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