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PAGE B1 Science GOING OUT ON A LIMB To Remove a Child's Tumor The golf-ball-size tumor in 3-year-old Grace Webster's brain is called a hypothalamic hamartoma, which afflicts only a few thousand people in the world.

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GS-MAD afflicts only a small sliver of the frequent-flying élite.

Because these often afflict only a few people who have no other options, governments and insurers typically allow fast-track approvals and generous reimbursements.

Last week the Saudi city of Jeddah was afflicted by heavy rains that lasted only a few hours but caused massive flooding and the deaths of more than 500 people.

Identified a scant quarter century ago, OSA was originally thought to be a rare disease that afflicted only the obese.

A dearth of friendship doesn't afflict only recent immigrants.

AIDS aside (and that only because it afflicts a few hundred thousand rich westerners as well as millions in poor countries), these are Cinderella diseases.That may be a cliché, but it is oddly pertinent.

Why does it afflict only Jews?

The lowest acceptance rate, 87.4 percent, involved plaintiffs who stood to get only a few thousand dollars because they were not afflicted with a qualifying illness under the settlement yet feared falling ill in the future.

Only a few knew.

Only a few quibble.

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