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May 20, 2012

reflex n.: tropism

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Over the year, Amando Doronila, a columnist for the Manila Chronicle, has mused repeatedly on the unshakable Filipino attraction to basketball, even as that tropism always seemed to lead to disappointment [in international competition]. (Alexander Wolff, Big Game, Small World, Warner Books [2002], p. 225.)

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