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Culture (was Architecture question for Steve based upon theSun, the Moon &

Mark A Mandel mam at theworld.com
Wed Oct 27 15:32:11 PDT 2004

#Tsarren wrote:
#> On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 07:20:05PM -0600, Howard Brazee wrote:
#>>
#>> How about the virus?

	[...]

#Depends upon who's doing the classification.   But let's move to a less
#controversial form, the bacteria.

As long as we're talking about "the virus" and "the polar bear", let's
be consistent and say "the bacterium". "Bacteria" is plural. :-)

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