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There are some norms that come from a Different Branch of the animal kingdom, those worms can kill severe tropical diseases, but am, theres a lot about the biology that we dont understand why is it so good at jumping from host to host . Is it just because it spreads throughout the population, but also because its good at jumping horizontally from one host to another . Yes, i think these are all questions, theres actually a huge field, theres a conference that happens every couple years or so. Theres a very thriving area of research. So we have gone full sticker. Thank you all for coming. I hope you all come to the signing. [applause] [inaudible conversation] [inaudible conversation] this is book tv on cspan2. It is television for serious readers. Here is our primetime lineup for tonight. Getting at 6 45 p. M. , cmb discuss similarities between the economic policies of the kennedy and reagan administrations. Then at 7 45 p. M. Eastern, time magazines argues that the financial practices
Church town and mary material. The day the earth caved in, and american mining tragedy published in 2007. And in 2005 she received the distributed by the colombia journalism foundation. She is a graduate of princeton. William Mary Law School and the columbia journalism school. Theriting has appeared in Washington Post, time magazine, National Geographic and the daily beast. Some of the books shes enjoyed pulpit bythe bully doris kearns. And the strange career of james crow by van woodward. [applause] joan thank you, roger. I need to thank all of you for coming out today. Thank you for the wilson center, has h. A. , the center who shown an interest in this project. Im thrilled to be here. Im happy to be here especially during womens History Month and am hoping we can have a great conversation about mary church material and the strug Mary Church Terrell and the struggle in washington, d. C. I hope you can all hear me. If not, let me know. A few years ago i wanted to write a book about th
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