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...most effective form of treatment, Kafka says, generally takes the form of aversive conditioning. "They'll find a behavioral therapist who will draw up scenarios that will arouse the patient, but as soon as that happens, the patient smells ammonia," he explains...
...characterized the smell as "ammonia-like...
...that's just the relatively benign municipal solid waste. Each year American industries belch, pump and dump more than 2.5 billion lbs. of really nasty stuff--like lead compounds, chromium, ammonia and organic solvents--into the air, water and ground. That's about 400 Olympic poolfuls of toxic waste...
...good at hacking into the human body, scientists figure they can be used as packaging material for whatever gene the patient lacks. In Jesse's study, all 18 participants had the same disease: ornithine transcarbamoylase (OTC) deficiency, which slows the liver's ability to metabolize nitrogen and releases deadly ammonia into the bloodstream. So Wilson's team harnessed the adenovirus (a cause of the common cold), neutralized harmful elements and used the virus to send in normal copies of the gene that was defective in Jesse...
...those unsophisticated Americans who are obsessed by matters of personal hygiene--the yahoos who, in the view of some Europeans, wouldn't think of checking into even a five-star hotel in a foreign country without arming themselves in advance with a bottle or two of lemon-fresh ammonia. I didn't fancy being lumped in my friends' minds with the impeachment managers from the House of Representatives, who give the impression of being the sort of people who bathe about every hour and a half and would like nothing better than to hunt down and prosecute anybody who doesn...