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This discovery provides insight into another route of HIV inhibition. If the shape transformation is blocked, HIV cannot fuse with the target cell membrane. This fusion is the mechanism that allows entry into the cell...
...member of below-average size. I’ve seen them all (and myself) in the shower. No, seriously. Noted philosopher Andrew Dice Clay, referring to meatheads in general, once said, “They’re 220 pounds of dynamite with a quarter-inch [expletive] fuse.” Tell me football player, did David’s friendly remark and your 15 beers at the Kong not mix well and spark the fire that lit that fuse? Oh, what an explosion ensued...
...example, as Republicans worked to add a prescription-drug benefit to Medicare, Thomas insisted on--and got--provisions allowing private insurers to compete with Medicare. White House officials say they are confident he won't torpedo Bush's Social Security plan. "The President has a longer fuse than most when it comes to him because, at the end of the day, he has produced a lot of results," says a senior White House aide. But Administration officials realize they will have to address Thomas' concerns, especially the reliance on payroll taxes to fund Social Security...
...Blood and Bones, which was adapted from a semiautobiographical novel by Korean-Japanese author Yang Sok Gil, is a departure from Sai's freewheeling, often humorous style. But the director's gutter humanism and Kitano's steely meanness fuse elegantly in their portrayal of a ruthless man who, as he builds a new life for himself in Japan, is gripped by a need to destroy what he creates. Even as we're repulsed by Kim's violence and heartlessness, we're seduced by his survivor's charisma-in fact, Kitano's performance is so compelling that Kim's victims have...
Fitting with this philosophy of the undergraduate’s vital role, the presenters also reiterated that proposals for an undergraduate student center in Allston are under serious consideration. Such a building has the potential to fuse together the broken shards of a fractured student population that yearns for unity, conviviality and common spaces for extracurricular pursuits. This page has called for the University to construct a student center since time immemorial. There is a desperate need for performance, practice and meeting space on campus, and a student center—if properly planned—will solve that problem...