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The findings also cast the humble single-cell creatures in a new, more tantalizing light: They are not merely molecular machines packed in microscopic bodies, but they are also agents that can learn.

In response to the criticism, Bawumia has said the economic management team he headed had no "decision-making powers" and that it merely provided advice to the government.

But for the Naga people, this process is not merely logistical.

That essential element of his identity is presented as merely neutral fact, rather than the alienating circumstance it no doubt was.

The 27-year-old Paul merely had to withstand an intense burst of activity from the former undisputed heavyweight champ in the second round, then outlast the visibly winded Tyson.