Word: expression
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...Japan, where taking one's own life has long been an honorable way to express shame, efforts are under way to lower the country's enormously high suicide rate. But after National Farm Minister Toshikatsu Matsuoka hanged himself in his apartment--he was about to face questions over a series of government scandals--Cabinet official Takanori Suzuki, citing "a kind of crisis," announced plans for an intensified battle against suicide, adding, "We will have to move quickly." Matsuoka...
...hasn't withdrawn support for Maliki, keeping the Prime Minister beholden to him. Yesterday, when Maliki presented six new candidates for the ministries vacated by Sadr's people, he was careful to express his gratitude toward the cleric, thanking him for giving him "the authority to choose the ministers...
...your new movie Paranoid Park, the main character, Alex Tremain, is told by his tough gal pal Macy that if he wants to expiate his troubled thoughts, he should express them by writing to someone, whether or not the letter is ever sent. Since I was kind of bewildered by the movie, I've decided to write to you, and ask: WHAT WERE YOU THINKING...
...There are two differences, though. The first is that the people in the Wong-Doyle films (Chungking Express, 2046 and the others) are professional actors, wonderful ones, who find interior life in their characters; Nevins, who's not an actor, doesn't have that skill, for all his photogenicity. The second difference is that those films weave a romantic spell about their dreamy characters, one that puts the audience in the mood for love. Your Alex is just a mopey, angst-ridden kid, cocooned in the misery of the immature, connecting with no one. Granted, he has plenty to fret...
...Boatright and his colleagues are working on a technique that would let ophthalmologists fix genes that not just fail to express themselves, like Robert Johnson's, but that have mutated in a way that they express themselves abnormally, a trickier proposition because doctors need to add something and suppress something else at the same time. (Boatright and co. would inject short DNA strands that, where they bound with the patient's DNA at the point of the fault, would alert the body's existing repair mechanisms to the problem). The future looks bright indeed...