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Frank McCormick was flying home from a meeting on cancer genetics when a wild idea popped into his head. What if you could make a virus that would infect-and kill-cancer cells but leave healthy cells intact? The next day, McCormick excitedly explained his notion to colleagues at Onyx Pharmaceuticals, a biotech company he had founded earlier that year. Some of them were as enthusiastic as he was. Others told him he was crazy; such a treatment couldn’t possibly work...
Written in the wake of his failed marriage, Alexakis' pain can be felt throughout the album, in such lines as "My heart is racing and/I am losing my mind/Sometimes I feel like my life is/on a slide." His ability to craft witty verses and infectious choruses remains intact, making this record unmistakeably Everclear. Likewise, subtle touches such as the delicate strings that end "Overwhelming" and the surprising ascent of the dark instrumental "Halloween Americana" into a poignantly melodic finish set this apart as Everclear's most mature and accomplished album. B+ -Ryan...
...early childhood, when this belief was still relatively intact, I reached the point in mental development where the world becomes not a place of magic and miracles, but a rule governed game, like chess or checkers. This slow transformation of the way that children perceive the world comes from many environmental factors. In my case Scooby Doo, with its scion of rationality in Velma, demonstrated time and time again that no matter how scary the monster, no matter how improbable the events, there was always a "logical explanation," while Shaggy and Scooby's (Zoinks!) belief in the supernatural was always...
...fashion statement. But Finnish researchers have found that little oval-shaped plastic bumpers that fit into undergarments can protect fragile hipbones. In a study of seniors, nearly all the oldsters who wore the protectors over their hips survived a fall with joints intact. (Good thing, because up to 30% of the elderly who break a hip can be expected to die within a year.) The crash helmets for hips are recommended for people with osteoporosis, especially those who suffer dizzy spells or are otherwise tumble prone. Whether old folks can be persuaded to wear them, though, is anyone's guess...
...came down to the wire. The week before Labor Day, we had folks in the building doing construction," he says. "Maintenance worked around the clock. We opened intact. They really worked their butts...