Word: magically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doctors come to grips with cancer's complexity--and discard the dream of discovering a "magic bullet" capable of eradicating the disease forever--a succession of small, incremental improvements shows promise of pushing the death rate down. Already doctors have learned how to keep the disease at bay for months, and sometimes even to produce complete remissions that may last for years. "We're running a marathon, not a sprint," observes Dr. Eugenie Kleinerman, a pediatric oncologist at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. "What's important is not how fast we run the first two miles but when...
TARGETING TOXINS Not so long ago, doctors thought they had finally found that long-awaited magic bullet in the war against cancer. Their great hope bears the impressive name of monoclonal antibodies, which are proteins that bind to--and attack--a particular target, usually another protein known as an antigen. But while natural antibodies go after antigens on the surface of viruses and bacteria, the artificial monoclonal antibodies are constructed to attack antigens that the immune system does not ordinarily recognize as dangerous, such as those displayed by tumor cells. Moreover, these antibodies (dubbed monoclonal because they are identical...
...were God, I would spread the magic that is baseball across America by instituting a neutral sight program. The Mexicans could see Fernando, the Venezuelans could watch El Presidente, and Ron Darling could get a heroes' welcome in Hawaii (if he were still pitching...
Ever since Clinton reached for him two years ago in late-night phone calls to help steer his political comeback, the former Republican strategist has become famous for casting a mighty and mysterious spell on the presidency. But the true magic of Morris isn't so much making Clinton understand that the American majority dances to a Republican tune, or extracting great ideas from Mark Penn's and Doug Schoen's zeitgeist-tracking polls, or rummaging through the bureaucracy looking for programs that help the President appear relevant. Morris' gift is to be a psychological trip wire for Clinton, pushing...
...worry. As always, the know-how is encoded in Ryan's dna. He works his magic against the evildoers and still finds the time to poke his head in on his sleeping children and muse that young Sally "now looked forward to the day she'd buy things from Victoria's Secret." Alas, with Ryan as her father she will probably wind up wearing camouflage-colored bras...