It appears that humans are doing a better job of avoiding being bitten, and on the rare occasion where they actually meet up with a shark, are doing the right thing to save their lives.

Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare.

It was definitely a rare situation where a career had started and ended simultaneously on a very high note.

The FDA on occasion will find those drugs admissible for personal use or when it appears to be a personal use quantity. The issue at hand is it's illegal, and the recipient never is assured that the same quality is going to arrive at their door step or that the drugs from the same manufacturer will arrive.

It's a rare occasion when someone important in the (software) industry decides not to support Linux,

If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.