Word: jolt
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...another decade, but once it is, Nabel and others plan to use every trick they have learned to boost its effectiveness. They may, for example, mix cytokines with the vaccine, counting on these chemicals to rally extra killer T cells against the virus. They may give a small jolt of electricity along with the priming dose of viral DNA; that shock seems to enhance the DNA's ability to trigger a response. And they are even experimenting with firing the DNA directly into immune-system cells at high pressure with so-called gene guns to make sure the nucleic acids...
Back in the U.S., police and prosecutors suffered a rude jolt from a court ruling that threw doubt on the validity of even the most sophisticated fingerprint analysis. Various defense lawyers had attempted for three years to get fingerprint analysis held to a rigorous standard for expert testimony set by a 1993 Supreme Court decision. Print-matching standards vary widely, the lawyers argued, and have never been scientifically proved. A Philadelphia judge finally agreed, and his ruling, while not binding in other jurisdictions, is expected to make it more difficult to use fingerprint evidence to prove guilt in court...
...awoke with a jolt. Overnight, this land of "bowling alone," of Internet introversion, of fractious multiculturalism developed an extraordinary solidarity--a vast outpouring of charity and volunteering; a suppression of partisanship and ethnic division; a coalescing behind resolute national leadership anchored by a new, untested President who rose extraordinarily to the occasion...
...vindicate five weeks of aerial attacks, bolster confidence in the Pentagon's strategy and puncture some of the Taliban's swelling resolve before winter sets in. While the Alliance's siege of Mazar may not have satisfied all those aims, it did give the U.S. campaign a welcome adrenaline jolt. And its significance ran deeper: in its quick betrayals and shifting tempo, primitive clashes and unanticipated results, the battle for Mazar-i-Sharif offers insights into the ways people fight in this forbidding land. Afghan forces on both sides often appear formless to visitors, but they can conceal tightly bound...
It’s the rare fair-to-middling band that survives a jolt into the limelight. Will Alien Ant Farm be among the lucky ones? I’ve certainly been surprised before (Sugar Ray?), but with a name like Alien Ant Farm? Smells like Novelty...