Bush (2000) lost the
overall vote but won the presidency.
http://gi.grolier.com/presidents/preshome.html
http://web.uccs.edu/~history/index/presidency.html
Prions
Prions are aberrant proteins that cause diseases collectively known as
transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Prions have normal,
non-pathogenic forms, resident on the surface of brain cells, white
blood cells, muscle cells and other tissues - but whose function is
unknown. Prions are infectious and multiply. Not susceptible to
enzymatic activity, they accumulate within the nerves, destroying
them. The brain becomes potholed, like Swiss cheese or a sponge -
hence, spongiform.
In humans, prions cause Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD),
Gerstmann-Str?ussler-Scheinker disease, fatal familial insomnia (FFI),
Alpers Syndrome and kuru. Animals are afflicted by scrapie, bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease or BSE), transmissible mink
encephalopathy (TME), and chronic wasting disease (CWD).
Prions have no nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) - they are not destroyed by
ultraviolet radiation - and therefore are not a life form. They are
also thought to cause hereditary and sporadic forms of disease.
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