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Balance By Wade Bentley When ants attack a termite mound, they kill and carry home only plunder enough to prompt more eggs from their queen, even as her opposite among the enemy ramps up production to replace those lost on her side. Likewise, when you kick a cat, her potential energy transforms into kinetic, and nothing will be lost should she return to smother you in your sleep. A shark that leaves a triangular tooth in the ass of his harbor-seal meal will replace it before the day is out. And then there’s the old