Word: armfuls
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...have the car, and then he would pump her full of lead." The gang is accused of murdering a policeman who tried to stop their assault on a sporting-goods store to steal weapons and cash. They shot him six times in the head, four in the arm and once in the back, then they used the getaway car to run him over to make sure he was dead...
...downturn is going to slow down this trend anytime soon. "God help the company that doesn't support employees in their volunteer efforts, now or in the future," says Tom Casey, Boston-based partner in charge of the attraction-and-retention practice for Unifi Network, the human-resources consulting arm of PricewaterhouseCoopers...
...four Iraqi prisoners who wanted to be taken prisoner by fellow Muslims, but that I'd only hand them over if he'd agree to translate for an hour of interview time. I told him the journalists in the car were watching, and if I raised my arm, they'd simply drive off. So he agreed, and we cut a deal...
Think vaccines: a quick needle in the arm or buttock to ward off flu or measles, right? Not necessarily. Most of the vaccines being developed today are designed to treat disease, not prevent it. "The field is exploding," says Dr. Jeffrey Schlom of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), sponsor of nearly 100 studies of therapeutic vaccines, many of them to fight melanoma, a deadly skin cancer...
...years doctors tried to stir immune reactions against cancers with a weakened tuberculosis bacterium called bacille Calmette-Guerin (BCG), but had only middling success. What has given the old idea a shot in the arm, so to speak, is biotechnology. Researchers like NCI's Dr. Steven Rosenberg have been able to isolate fragments from the surface of melanoma cells. Injected into the body, these antigens trick the immune system into producing a flood of killer T cells, which then go after the tumor cells containing the telltale fragments...