Word: destroy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...form of this procedure, doctors remove from the patient's bone marrow a supply of stem cells--the body's blood-making factories--and put them aside for safekeeping. Then they use powerful doses of radiation and chemotherapy to destroy all the cancer cells in the blood--in the process, destroying the healthy blood cells as well. Finally, they try to rebuild the blood supply from scratch by reinfusing the patient with the original stem cells...
...Personally, I think that this statistic [40 percent] has been manipulated by the ignorant to harass and destroy the self-confidence of students at this school whose relatives did attend Harvard," Ekman says...
...this week's newspapers will no doubt wax poetic on the meaning of Deep Blue's victory and what it portends for the sorry fate of modern man. The work of our hands has conquered us, they will say; our own successes will yet come back to haunt and destroy us. Human genius will be eulogized as nothing more than a complicated algorithm that was waiting to be decoded...
...inconvenient, too dangerous. We can't really ration or control love; that's why it's called falling in love. It consumes all other emotions, and certainly conquers reason. It relegates all other claims on our time or on our energy to the margins--if it doesn't wholly destroy them. As soon as love is recognized for itself, it unleashes a recklessness that can vitiate everything else we hold dear...
...heroin and alcohol trigger a complex chemical cascade that raises dopamine levels. And a still unknown chemical in cigarette smoke, a group led by Brookhaven chemist Joanna Fowler reported last year, may extend the activity of dopamine by blocking a mopping-up enzyme, called MAO B, that would otherwise destroy...