Word: annoyment
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...target cancer cells. A vaccine developed at Memorial Sloan-Kettering binds a protein from a limpet to seven different types of sugars and a protein fragment found only on cancer cells, and saponin, a soap-like derivative from a South American tree. This witch’s brew serves to annoy the immune system, revving it up enough to attack cancer cells that are carrying the same sugars and protein fragment...
PETS.COM SOCK PUPPET His company may have folded, but he lives on to annoy another...
...waiting for, kids? Only at Spike and Mike's can you see zany misadventures of silly Mr. Motormouth or the heartwarming exploits of Wheelchair Rebecca! So come join the fun and learn about the wonders of our bodies through some Claymation, or how to be an "Angry Kid" and annoy your parents on long car rides. Be sure not to miss out on the singing penis-the mouth is animated, but everything else...
Bush is also seen as more emotionally open, ingenuously self-deprecating, so his larger distortions--about skewing his tax cuts, raising less money than Gore for his campaign, giving more seniors drug coverage--do not annoy people as much. Embellishment takes a certain amount of calculation, and most of Bush's RAM is used up trying to remember who's covered and who isn't under his own Medicare prescription plan. Bush, who boasts of his preference for one-page memos over books, obviously wanted the bell to ring badly on Tuesday night. He affably admitted he needs help, naming...
...confession is in order: there are movies whose feel-good sentiments and slick craft annoy me so deeply that I know they will become box-office successes or top prizewinners. I call this internal mechanism my Built-In Hit Detector. I squirm through these masterpieces of emotional pornography, jotting down derisive notes. Oh, if the contrivance is blatant enough, I may get a bit teary; it is, after all, no more difficult for filmmakers to make an audience cry by depicting, say, a child in jeopardy than it is for a lap dancer to evoke an erection in her client...