Word: agent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Early last week, Mark Canton went to a screening of Jerry Maguire, an upcoming Tom Cruise vehicle about a sports agent, and started to think that life might get better. Yes, the chairman of Sony's film studios, which include Columbia and Tri-Star, had presided over a particularly dreadful summer. He had been excoriated for paying Jim Carrey $20 million for The Cable Guy, which faltered at the box office. And as his competitors feasted on the returns from Twister and Mission: Impossible and Independence Day, Canton suffered the further indignities of Multiplicity and The Fan. But the screening...
...department now has a sliding scale of famous names. Appiah says he doesn't consider himself a public figure, while West's voice mail refers "reporters and those interested in inviting Professor West to speak at a conference" to his press agent in New York City...
...inside out or outside in. Supporters of the first scenario believe abnormalities in a protein called tau cause neurons in the brain's memory centers to clutter themselves up with tangled filaments, bringing cellular metabolism to a standstill. Still others think the damage is dealt by an external agent: the so-called beta-amyloid protein that aggregates in the brain, forming fibrous plaques. These plaques in turn injure neighboring neurons, causing them...
...Fagan's brain, a cobwebby growth was spreading. Nothing, it seemed, could arrest the malignant tumor's terrible advance: not surgery, not radiation, not standard chemotherapy. So to save the nine-year-old's life, his doctors decided to kill him--nearly. They increased the dosage of an anticancer agent known as cyclophosphamide to levels that completely wiped out Dustin's bone marrow and thus destroyed his ability to generate new red and white blood cells. Then they revived their small patient by injecting him with healthy marrow that had been drawn in advance from his hipbone. The result: today...
...people. By introducing a few HIV genes into the canary pox virus, the researchers hope to create a new microbe that looks sufficiently like HIV that it will prime the body's defenses against the more serious threat. In early trials of vaccine preparations that include the canary pox agent, half the human subjects appear to be producing the right kind of immune response, but further tests are needed. "By the turn of the year," says Dr. Dani Bolognesi at Duke University, "we should be able to tell whether these vaccines are going to be worth pursuing further...