Word: mads
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...turned out to be utterly compatible. "Jim and I hit it off immediately," writes Crick in his book, What Mad Pursuit, "partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness and an impatience with sloppy thinking came naturally to both of us." (Crick had got in trouble more than once at the Cavendish for pointing out the sloppy thinking of his bosses...
Stanley Prusiner discovers prions, the infectious proteins responsible for scrapie and mad-cow disease...
...It’s horrible,” says Echeverria. “Everyone does a mad rush to get one of the machines. The stairs is the place to establish dominance,” she says...
...regime which bullies its denizens is poised to threaten the U.S. Regardless of its heinous record in human rights, China is self-interested like all nations and probably favors economic development over ruinous war. Unlike North Korea, there has been no indication that the leaders in Beijing are outright mad in their approach to diplomacy. Though espionage remains a serious issue, fear of Chinese nuclear aggression seems overblown...
...ring a bell.” He’s referring to a not-so-cryptic message in the far corner of the basement microfiche cage in Lamont, one floor below the most subterranean study carrels. The message warns late-night users of a certain “Mad Jack.” Despite the words of this self-proclaimed “well-wisher,” the guard thinks Jack’s a joke. He says a guard is on watch at all times, admitting that it “takes a unique person...