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It stinks and its slick to the touch and i cant keep it off me. A perfect meal with all the right ingredients mixed in perfe. The expression elephant in the room usually the elephant in the room or the elephant in the living room is a metaphorical idiom in english for an important or enormous topic, problem, or risk that is obvious or that everyone knows about but no one mentions or wants to discuss because it makes at least some of them uncomfortable or is personally, socially, or politically embarrassing, controversial. The wireless elephant in the room posted on wednesday, march 4, 2020 an overview of the rapidly emerging public health issue from cell phones, wireless devices and wireless infrastructure and how the growth in these technologies is a little understood driver of poor health outcomes and costs. Yes, it is fiction, yes, it does have suspense, but there are many truths to be found as you read elephant in the room.
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