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The main finding: A longer daily walk seems to beat a lot of incidental steps—but there is no need to trek for hours on end.

The chaos is not incidental; it’s the method.

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And whether the cats recovered because they were treated with Tamiflu, or whether the medication was incidental and they’d have recovered on their own — from another virus, infection or ailment — isn’t clear.

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“Within the building itself, you would be shook around so much that there could be incidental injuries to people from falling objects within the building itself,” he told the board.

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It was only later the country learned there had only been one incidental attack, and the second was created as pretext to call it a provocation that required a massive American response.

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