Word: mad
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...implications were chilling. Since the mid-1990s, the words mad-cow disease had turned beef eaters around the world to tofu tasters as people began to die of the human variant of the disease. Then in 2004 came another disturbing report in the medical journal the Lancet: variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (VCJD), as the illness is properly called, could be spread through blood transfusions. With no way to test for the incurable illness except in the brain samples of the dead, how to ensure the safety of the world's blood supply...
...first quarter: A lesson: Don't make the Harvard defense mad. Joe Sandberg loses two on the first play from scrimmage...
...matter of fact, yes, doc. I seem to be drinking and urinating like mad...
...situations: merchants, con men and lonely housewives. Nowhere is that more evident than in the way he treats women. In Shakespeare, they tend to be "neatly categorizable as virgins or sluts or Madonnas or monsters," says Celia Daileader, a professor at Florida State University who annotated the comedy A Mad World, My Masters for The Collected Works. By contrast, the women in Middleton are as complicated as they are in real life. "He gives you a view of female sexuality that's very complex," says Daileader. "And he has some very sympathetic women who commit adultery - something inconceivable to Shakespeare...
...felt I was put in the middle of offices that weren’t communicating with each other,” says Delaney. She was further frustrated by OCS’s unsympathetic response to the complications with her Fulbright application. “OCS was mad at me because nothing looked right [on my application],” Delaney recalls. But the consequences of not receiving senior standing are not limited to those looking to land a fellowship or job. Abby E. Feuer ’08 received confirmation in July that the OIP had received her transcript from...