Word: potentate
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...Catch-22 in a literature class; we would expect students to read an entire work. Just so with the Bible. My enthusiasm for this proposal is not entirely selfless. I subscribe to the position espoused by the great Isaac Asimov: "Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived...
...cancer was diagnosed in the fall of 2004. The specifics of her treatment were not made public, but doctors say it's likely that, in addition to surgery and radiation, she's already received three of the most commonly used drugs - Adriamycin, Cytoxan and either Taxol or Taxotere. This potent regimen knocks out tumor cells and causes the familiar side effects of nausea and hair loss. If her original tumor was estrogen-sensitive - meaning growing in response to the hormone - then she is almost certainly taking an estrogen-blocking drug such as Tamoxifen. (See TIME's photo-essay "The Diary...
...cutlery fingers is kinder, more sensitive than any human, and she and Edward come together in dance, eSizz soars into ballet ecstasy. As Edward's giant ice sculpture of Kim looms at one side, she melts into his arms. Their climactic pas de deux is one of the emotionally potent I've seen, both because of the precision of the performers' movements and its dramatic necessity in the story - at this moment of connection, what can two people do but dance...
...Stanford University, Olivera began doing research on the deadly cone snails that live in the Southeast Asian island. His research, which now includes many more types of cone snails, has led to a better understanding of the nervous system and the development of new commercial drugs, such as potent painkillers that are administered to patients who do not respond to morphine. Director of the Foundation Dr. S. Allen Counter, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, said Olivera’s work has the potential to “explain some behaviors...[and] help us treat and cure many...
...Murphy) and his more hot-headed brother, Teddy (Padraic Delaney), who is the group's leader. Theirs is a life of midnight raids on British barracks, roadside ambushes, betrayals, captivity (which includes brutal torture) and the meting out of summary justice to informers, all of which Loach captures with potent realism...