Word: flips
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...While many scientists focus their attention on potential weaknesses in the cancer cell, others are concentrating on the flip side?recruiting the body's immune system to seek and destroy the renegade tissues. So far, this approach has proved less successful, largely because no matter how badly they are misbehaving, tumor cells are purely homegrown and thus presumed innocent by the immune system. When it finally catches on that something is wrong, it's usually too late...
While many scientists focus their attention on potential weaknesses in the cancer cell, others are concentrating on the flip side--recruiting the body's immune system to seek and destroy the renegade tissues. So far, this approach has proved less successful, largely because no matter how badly they are misbehaving, tumor cells are purely homegrown and thus presumed innocent by the immune system. When it finally catches on that something is wrong, it's usually too late...
...pals from New York, the bickering mother and daughter, the separated couple trying to reconcile and the gay partners of 11 years. (Another thing you generally don't see on dramas and sitcoms - see "The Ellen Show," above - where gay people are required to be young, single and flip about their love lives, which take place off-camera...
...coal consumption. The industry has already reaped benefits from the Bush team, with executives named to key jobs at Commerce, Interior and other departments. Coal representatives helped man Bush transition teams, putting them in position to lobby against CO2 controls from the inside. Just before the President flip-flopped on the greenhouse gas in March, he visited West Virginia and pledged that he would "convince many in the country who don't believe we can have a clean-air policy and burn coal at the same time...
...coal consumption. The industry has already reaped benefits from the Bush team, with executives named to key jobs at Commerce, Interior and other departments. Coal representatives helped man Bush transition teams, putting them in position to lobby against CO2 controls from the inside. Just before the President flip-flopped on the greenhouse gas in March, he visited West Virginia and pledged that he would "convince many in the country who don't believe we can have a clean-air policy and burn coal at the same time...