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Medicine used to be obsessed with eradicating the tiny bugs that live within us. Now we’re beginning to understand all the ways they keep us healthy.
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There is no such thing as life after basketball for the 13-time N.B.A. champion. Life is basketball.
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Five minutes until the electricity cuts out, they told us. Ten until landing.
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