Word: mads
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When Jonathan Simms was 17, doctors thought he had 14 months to live. The Belfast teen was exhibiting the first symptoms of variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (VCJD), the human version of mad cow disease, and there could only be one prognosis. But three years later, his condition is no longer considered terminal. Thanks to a controversial new therapy, he may become the first known survivor of a disease that has killed 147 Britons since 1995. After the diagnosis, Simms' father Don read about the use of an anticoagulant called pentosan polysulphate (PPS) to delay the onset of scrapie, a disease...
...says communications director Dan Bartlett, and expanding democracy in Iraq, a place voters were watching smolder on the nightly news, was not high on their list. Yet "every time we'd have a speech and attempt to scale back the liberty section, he would get mad at us," Bartlett says. Sometimes the President would simply take his black Sharpie and write the word freedom between two paragraphs to prompt himself to go into his extended argument for America's efforts to plant the seeds of liberty in Iraq and the rest of the Middle East...
Lost yet another eBay auction as you hustled for holiday gifts? Had a buyer swoop in at the 11th hour with a winning bid? Don't get mad--get a snipe program. Sniping is slang for last-second bidding; an estimated 5% of eBay auctions end that way. At Web-based services such as eSnipe, PowerSnipe and Bidnapper, simply enter the maximum amount you are prepared to pay for an item, and the site takes care of the bidding, saving you time and improving your odds of victory. eSnipe offers a 14-day free trial; after that, you pay only...
...mad cool. The last show we had, Usher actually came out on my set to perform with me. This entire year has been like a roller-coaster ride, when I think back. I just feel so blessed at every opportunity to be on that stage with the biggest artist in the world. He really works hard; he's similar to me in that aspect. I've learned a lot from him. It's about getting a response out of the audience and being a great performer...
...Boston area with his five piece band and occasionally with merely an accompanist (for his comedy shows). His album Cruising With the Masters charted on the Top 40 for CMJ’s new music charts. At this CD release party with friends IIJ, Wack Ass Egyptians, Mad Larry, and Elliot Timmers, new CDs will be free. 18+. Tickets...