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...fellow at Harvard, Ptashne rose to fame after isolating the repressor of lambda phage virus. The lambda virus is able to remain dormant in E. coli bacteria because its repressor binds to the viral DNA, preventing the expression of the genes necessary for viral replication...
Nothing is less funny these days than the state of movie comedy. The Hollywood farces dominating the world's screens are sad affairs populated by TV stars playing dumb. The notion of laughter as a worldwide language is dormant, presumed dead. So what's a viewer...
According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent. And each successive shaking "potentized" the solution even further. Hahnemann believed that the extremely dilute solution, when taken by a patient, would jump-start the body's dormant "vital force" to combat illness. Hahnemann's Law of Infinitesimals--his belief that the more a remedy is diluted, the stronger its effect--is homeopathy's second major tenet...
...National Security Agency, along with top-secret intelligence units in the Army, Navy and Air Force, has been researching ways to infect enemy computer systems with particularly virulent strains of software viruses that already plague home and office computers. Another type of virus, the logic bomb, would remain dormant in an enemy system until a predetermined time, when it would come to life and begin eating data. Such bombs could attack, for example, computers that run a nation's air-defense system or central bank. The CIA has a clandestine program that would insert booby-trapped computer chips into weapons...
...said he wanted the U.S. to be "aware of thedangers that lie dormant in [affairs] likeBosnia-Herze-govina, that threaten the very valuesthat form the basis of democratic nations...