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Only last year, Allen Roses, a Duke University neurologist, seemed out in left field in terms of research on Alzheimer's disease, the dread brain disorder that afflicts as many as 4 million Americans. His theory that a particular gene puts people at high risk for Alzheimer's just didn't get much attention or respect from fellow scientists. But after months of tirelessly making his case, Roses is no longer dismissed; instead he is being courted by drug companies eager to use his research to find a diagnostic test and treatment. At a medical meeting in New York City...
...what? This is at heart a picture about animals doing really smart things. The dilophosaur can inspire dread just by staring at its prey; the raptors by breathing on a window or opening a door. The T. rex goes for broader gestures: tipping over that rickety van, gobbling half of a lawyer, and shaking the other half like a cat with a mouse between its teeth. (And if you miss the book's creepiest scene, where the T. rex curls its tongue around a child hiding inside a waterfall, it's not here because, Spielberg says, "the tongue we made...
...better explanation than jealousy, though, is a kind of dread. Perspective's fearful David Kennedy heaps slurs at the magazine: "The type of sexism advanced by Inside Edge is much more invidious than the patriarchal politics of Peninsula...
...thought of doing a musical--a conventional Broadway musical--in the swimming pool filled me with dread...
...horrors of Croat and German atrocities against Serbs have been kept as alive as yesterday. However implausible, many Serbs believe without doubt they are finally getting their chance to defeat the Germans and avenge one of the most tragic chapters of Serb history. The wounds, anger and even the dread remain fresh after 50 years. Pleads an impassioned major: "Why can't you understand the Serbs' fear...