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...first, doctors suspected that the polio virus had somehow remained latent in PPMA victims, only to be reactivated. But unlike polio, PPMA is never fatal, and it progresses far more slowly than the original disease. That would seem to rule out the polio virus as the culprit. A more likely cause may be the toll taken on healthy nerve cells by years of overcompensating for those destroyed by the disease. Many polio survivors, says Perry, "are functioning at 50% of their muscle strength most of the time, whereas healthy people stay under 20%." For this reason, the nerve cells...
...latent offensive talent rising...
...reached new levels of intensity, and will be used by the President to power many of his appeals. Historian Walter Berns of the American Enterprise Institute says that one of the most irresistible forces in history is the resonance that comes when people discover a leader who endorses their latent pride...
This is Weiss's key point. Man is a brute and he always will be; his ideological fervor is only inspired by latent lust and violence. As Sade himself quips, "People join revolutions when the adrenaline builds up." The radical soapbox priest, Jacques Roux, is played by a vociferous, apoplectic inmate (Kristen Gasser) who is restrained by a gag. Aroused by Corday's ghoulish description of a beheading she witnessed in Paris, the patients play at guillotining each other, tossing about a large red ball--a dismembered head--and tittering like demons...
...says Researcher Trika Smith-Burke: "Almost all parents had a latent fear that their children would become hooked by the computer...