Word: grail
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Still, a new generation of medications--perhaps tailored to particular serotonin receptors--is urgently needed for the 20% of depressed patients who do not benefit from existing drugs. Researchers hope to come up with compounds that begin acting immediately rather than in a period of weeks. "The Holy Grail of new antidepressant treatment is rapid onset," asserts Dr. John Ascher, a research physician at Glaxo Wellcome in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. "We're talking about medicine that takes effect in just...
...government's policy guidelines did Netanyahu pledge to abide by the Oslo peace accords, and Washington is gloomy about the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Since Netanyahu has ruled out returning the occupied Golan Heights, the Administration has abandoned hope of achieving an Israeli-Syrian peace treaty, the holy grail of Warren Christopher's Mideast diplomacy. But if the White House is less than delighted, a Republican leader in Congress was recently overheard saying of Netanyahu, "He's one of us." The Israelis have not only elected an American-style leader, it seems, they've also elected a Republican...
Osterman attributed the prevalence of PMS at Harvard to the belief that the admissions process is a quest for a mythical "Holy Grail...
Alluding to a scene from Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade in which Indy must choose the real Holy Grail, Colangelo brought out two Pudding Pots, one of which was the real Pot and the other a clever imitation--a food processor...
More surprises are almost certain to follow if astronomers find more and more planets circling other stars. But while finding new planets of any sort is terrifically exciting, says Alan Boss, an astronomer at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, "the Holy Grail is to find an extrasolar planet that is capable of supporting life...