Noun

(malignancies)

The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours.

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Noun

(en noun)

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, passage=Risk is everywhere. From tabloid headlines insisting that coffee causes cancer (yesterday, of course, it cured it) to stern government warnings about alcohol and driving, the world is teeming with goblins. For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you.}}

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, passage=Sierra Leone’s post-dictator problems are almost absurd in their breadth. It once exported rice; now it can’t feed itself. The life span of the average citizen is 39, the shortest in Africa. Unemployment stands at 87 percent and tuberculosis is spreading out of control. Corruption, brazen and ubiquitous, is a cancer on the economy.}}