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   • 2005 Autumn, Sidney L. Kasfir, “Narrating Trauma as Modernity”, in African Arts, volume 38, number 3, page 66:

     Yesterday spears were the weapon of choice in the North Rift; today they are being replaced by the Kalashnikov and rocket-fired grenade.

   • 2006 Summer, Nicholas Delbanco, “Spring and Fall”, in The Southern Review, volume 42, number 3, page 536:

     "The Doors of Perception," as Aldous Huxley called them, had opened wide, and LSD became the drug of choice.

   • 2010 May, Estiel Meyer with Wakisal Mulwafu, Johannes Fagan, Robin Brown, and Kathryn Taylor, “Ectopic thymic tissue presenting as a neck mass in children: A report of 3 cases.”, in ENT: Ear, Nose & Throat Journal, volume 89, number 5, page 228:

     Once the cyst is diagnosed, surgical excision is the treatment of choice.