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...laziness and short attention spans extend to our daily speech and written work as well. Everything, it seems, is abbreviated into those sometimes inane, sometimes clever acronyms. Or else orthodox spellings are altered: "thank you" is now "thanx," "because" becomes...
...boss. Like a smitten girl, he sits by the phone, head to it, waiting for it to ring. He's miffed when she's late for a date. After sex, he says, "You make me feel dirty" and "I'm calling my mother." It makes for good comedy -- and clever career rehab...
...Making clever use of the fact that the familiar infectious agents called retroviruses will attack only cells that are in the process of dividing, researchers at the National Institutes of Health spliced a snippet of DNA from a herpes virus into one of these retroviruses and injected the combination into rats suffering from brain cancer. Since cancer cells are about the only cells that are dividing in a cancer-infected brain, the viruses were supposed to invade those cells and multiply. After five days, the rats were treated with an antiherpes drug. The hope was that the toxin would kill...
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...what guardians of respectability find vile is considered compelling and clever by the hundreds of thousands of fans who have made Ice-T the world's most consistently successful hard-core rapper. Despite very little radio play or MTV time -- his cuts are too hot for the air -- he has produced four gold- selling albums. His fans are mainly young males, but they range through all races and classes, and they can be found from his adopted hometown of Los Angeles to Harlem and Harvard -- where his 1989 album, The Iceberg Freedom of Speech, was No. 1 on the campus...