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...perfectly, like a key into a lock. Docking with the cell, the virus penetrates the cell membrane and is stripped of its protective shell in the process. Within half an hour, the strand of RNA and an enzyme the virus carries with it are floating in the cytoplasm, the fluid interior of the cell...
...book-lined room, the well-placed camping tent, or the cozy room at the inn or club, with fortifying drinks at hand. But soon a vague unease, a chill in the air, or else a strong shock undermines or shatters composure. No rhetorical onslaught . . . can equal it; the intrusion, fluid and elusive or sharp and violent, destroys all past security." King begins with all the reassuring American trappings: the 7-Eleven stores, the ribbons of superhighway, the town high schools that seem part of an ordered landscape. Then come the hints of malaise and, abruptly, what A.D. Hutter, a professor...
...around the country besieged the NCI for LAK treatment. Able to take only a handful of patients, the institute is still turning away hundreds each week. Nearly overlooked in the news reports was Rosenberg's warning of IL-2's side effects, which include internal bleeding and retention of fluid in the tissues. Indeed, the large doses of the substance required to supplement the LAK cells caused at least one test subject to die of lung failure. LAK cells, it turned out, are primitive weapons, difficult to direct at a single target. They are like a "rocket that just goes...
Simon is articulate about his craft. Many songwriters dodge interpretive discussions, but Simon will dig in, talking about a tune with the fluid confidence of a seminar master. Indeed, he has taught a few songwriting classes, and can cut loose about "pressure to keep music either raw and unsophisticated or to keep it young. On the one hand, that might make rock vital, but on the other, one reason my generation has stopped listening to music is that it doesn't have anything to do with their lives. In the '60s, it was what was happening in your life...
While many alumni at the event seemed to indicate that they would have been happier if Bok had decided to order the police to make arrests despite the chaos, he said the protest was "too fluid a situation to control." With alumni yelling and scuffling with the protesters in the dark, a confrontation could have resulted in injuries to some of the assembled VIPs...