Word: john
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...presidency afloat. I'm not sure which is worse--that or the fact that her own husband didn't even support her. The media chastised Dan Quayle for his inability to spell the word "potato." But then again, we've all become a little "Spell Check"-dependent. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) has been criticized for his fiery temper. Gary "Family Values" Bauer has come under suspicion for spending time in an office alone with a young female aide. Pat Buchanan has never stopped being controversial. Many candidates have shared their religious beliefs as part of their campaigns; a friend...
...Crimson's weekend was a mix of surprising success and disappointing defeat. Joe Green, co-captain and the team's top player, was seeded No. 7 in the field. After a bye in the first round and an easy 6-1, 6-2 victory over Andre Vanier of St. John's University, Green faltered and lost to unseeded Ahn Ahn Liu of Princeton, who went on to the semifinals...
...cells of surrounding tissue and invade it. Vaccines cobbled together from whole cancer cells or bits and pieces of those cells have been shown to boost the body's immune system, helping it recognize and kill tumors on its own. "This was all a dream five years ago," marvels John Minna, director of the Hamon Center for Therapeutic Oncology Research at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas...
...politically correct term for what used to be called quackery. Any alternative therapy that can be proved valid will swiftly be incorporated into mainstream medicine. Any "medicine" that is based on myth, irrationality and deception will eventually be rejected. "Once the public finds out what homeopathy is," predicts Dr. John Renner, head of the National Council for Reliable Health Information, "once they find out that chlorophyll is necessary for plant life but not human life, they're going to turn on these alternative groups...
...bush in central Brazil, bits of the Tibetan Plateau. Much of this wilderness is so huge and empty and emphatically inhospitable that it is difficult to picture its ever succumbing to the crush of civilization. But the same could have been said of the Grand Canyon in 1869, when John Wesley Powell braved murderous rapids and myriad other hazards to become the first man to navigate the Colorado River...