Word: brained
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Known by the misleadingly modest title of Legislative Strategy Group (L.S.G.), the brain trust that has coalesced around Chief of Staff James Baker, 54, has become the Tolkien ring of power in the White House. The group does not appear on any of the detailed charts drawn during the transition by Counsellor Edwin Meese, 50, to map the flow of White House authority. Rather, it was conceived shortly after the Inauguration by Baker's deputy, Richard Darman, 39, to coordinate the passage of Reagan's economic program. "It was important that everyone in the Administration knew there...
Three years ago, a stroke turned Susan Chanslor, then 39, from an athletic, vivacious woman into a wheelchair-bound cripple with some brain damage and recurring bouts of headaches and depression. Two years later Chanslor rented a post office box using a fake name and address, then placed his ads in Gung-Ho and Soldier of Fortune. He received several replies, but last fall the energetic attorney came across a promising five-volume set of books titled How to Kill, by John Minnery, a Canadian weapons expert. Chanslor telephoned Minnery, whom he refers to as Dr. Death, to ask about...
...foil struck Smirnov's chest protector with unusual force. The blade snapped off at the tip; the jagged end then sprang upward, cut through Smirnov's wire-mesh face protector and sank between his left eye and left frontal lobe, severing an artery and piercing his brain...
Once the attack has been brought under control by the immunological system, the virus retreats. In oral herpes, which is generally caused by herpes simplex Type 1, it travels through nerve fibers into the trigeminal ganglia, a group of nerve cells located near the brain. In genital herpes, usually caused by Type 2, the virus withdraws to the sacral ganglia, nerve cell clusters near the spinal cord. Lodged in the nerve cells, the herpes simplex virus is beyond the reach of the body's immune system and enters a latent stage. This stage may last forever...
...many researchers engaged in the international search for a herpes vaccine. The main challenge, he explains, is to create a substance that poses none of the dangers of the virus itself. "It can't cause cancer, for instance," he says, "and it shouldn't get into the brain." A team at the University of Birmingham in England has already tested a vaccine in 60 people who ran a high risk of contracting the disease (spouses of herpes victims). It was reportedly 100% effective for two years in preventing herpes...