It is a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.

My thinking is that if we're going to take from a culture, let's take from a culture that has exemplified success for thousands of years.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.

I don't know what kind of courage it took thousands of years ago, but I know how courageous women need to be today.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has established highly specific criteria for the diagnosis of Lyme disease: an acknowledged tick bite, the appearance of a bull's-eye rash, and, for those who don't live in a region where Lyme is common, laboratory evidence of infection.