Word: boned
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...DIED. Jeff Getty, 49, AIDS patient and activist who agitated for experimental medical treatments; of cardiac arrest; in Joshua Tree, California. In 1995, after a two-year fight for approval, Getty received bone-marrow cells from a baboon-the first animal-to-human bone-marrow transplant-to boost his immune system. Though his body rejected the cells and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later banned such transplants, he used his visibility to fight on, successfully getting more doctors to perform organ transplants on AIDS patients, whose prognoses were often deemed too bleak to justify such surgery...
...pooled on the surface. Dyson's Airblade instead blasts the water off your hands with a jet of air traveling at 400 m.p.h. The hurricane-force wind squeegees water into a drain; in a trial run, it took 10 seconds for our hands to go from dripping wet to bone dry. As a hygienic bonus, expelled air and collected water are thoroughly filtered. The Airblade hits gas or, rather, petrol stations in Britain this fall and will probably find its way into U.S. rest rooms next year...
...Montealegre is widely perceived as the U.S. government’s preferred candidate. Birns added that officials believe Ortega, the former Marxist who ruled the country in the 1980s, could ally with Venezulean President Hugo Chavez. “Even though Ortega doesn’t have a Marxist bone left in his body, it is still enough to terrify the United States,” said Birns. However, the U.S. will likely have little power over the upcoming elections. “The U.S. has limited influence,” said Stephen Johnson, a senior policy analyst...
Harvard students and sleazy, mustachioed 30-somethings alike will now have the opportunity to chase attractive strangers on the new missed connections Web site, Kizmeet.com. Kizmeet allows users to create posts (usually to the tune of, “you were drinking chai latte, and I wanted to bone you”) chronicling the flying of sparks in an array of public places around Boston including Starbucks restaurants and even Fenway Park. The site, which is broken into subsections by city, has dedicated boards for several Harvard Square locations, including Peet’s Coffee, Tealuxe, Redline, and even Harvard?...
Something you’ve always wanted to tell someone: I’ve had stitches 18 different times, but I’ve never broken a bone. Favorite childhood toy: My dreidel. I made it out of clay. Describe yourself in three words: I’m Aquaman [Editor’s Note: That’s two words...