Word: injects
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...sometimes not—during my two-day stay. Why the knowing glances in a bar’s inner bowels between complete strangers from Harvard and Northeastern, followed not long thereafter by an unprovoked chant of “Yankees suck!”? Why the need to inject themselves into conversations 30 feet away to curtly ask whether they could “wipe their ass with...
...Sweeney's group is perfecting a version of gene therapy, the most efficient way to dump a large amount of genetic material into a tissue as extensive as muscle (about 40% of body weight comes from muscle). He packs the IGF-1 gene into a harmless cold virus and injects the entire package directly into muscle. Once the IGF-1 gene inserts itself into the genome of the muscle cell, it begins to churn out the insulin-like growth factor that activates muscle expansion. Muscles in mice injected this way grew up to 30% larger than in normal animals, even...
...once enjoyed a certain cachet among international men of mystery. Every spywatcher knows about Bulgarian defector Georgi Markov, who was assassinated in London in 1978 in a ploy that James Bond or Austin Powers would appreciate: a shadowy stalker jabbed Markov in the leg with an umbrella rigged to inject a pellet of ricin under his skin (the killer was never found, but the KGB and the Bulgarian secret service were prime suspects...
...them. “Teenage girls have the Vagina Warrior mentality, when you don’t care whether people like you, or better, when you go against how you’re supposed to behave for people to like you. That’s what I want to inject into the rest of society. If more women were fully manifest, they would be loud and pierced forever just as they are in their college years,” she says...
...adviser told me the Senator wasn't emphasizing foreign policy because "that's not what people are interested in." That seems myopic. The Edwards ascendancy has been stunted by the Senator's youthful appearance--he could use the opposite of Botox--and there is no more painless way to inject gravitox into a campaign than to speak with knowledge and controlled passion about foreign policy issues...