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...surgeon?s role is to assist the body in mounting a concerted defense against the intruders, be they cancerous cells or traumatic injuries. "Nuland generally writes with a clarity that any journalist can envy," says TIME's John Elson. "Still, the eyelids of the scientifically challenged may droop a bit amid the book?s vital but unlyrical nuts-and-bolts background passages...
Artful equivocations are even worse; lynx-eyed sly little rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to exam 40. Then our lynx eyes droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such; but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud." (V.G.); "But whether or not this is a good thing or a bad thing is difficult to say." (A.E.) Now one such might...
...most volatile states in the Union this election season--and the Democrats have nowhere to go but up. Some pundits even see the possibility of a Democratic congressional delegation from Kansas next year--a prospect that would make Republican flowers, especially in Bob Dole's home state, droop...
Later that day, she elaborates for me on the subtle calculus of recognition that is the expertise of some residents of these neighborhoods. With methadone, she explains, there is a particular way in which users droop--heroin addicts are different, more dazed-looking, in a stupor. Again, I imagine what it is like to leave childhood with this legacy of knowledge, rather than multiplication tables and reading skills...
Even before this latest attack, tobacco was in a droop. After years in which the industry beat back lawsuits from health-impaired smokers, it lost a worrisome one earlier this month. Following the disclosure of documents showing that industry executives sought to hide their knowledge that their product was addictive, a Florida jury awarded $750,000 to a longtime smoker who developed lung cancer. Though an Indianapolis, Indiana, jury handed the tobacco industry a break late last week by finding it not guilty in a similar case, more than 200 individual lawsuits nationwide await, plus 14 by states that...