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...wooded mountains, steep hills and rolling pastures dotted with sagging barns and country churches--into a society plagued by pilferers. They swipe guns from unlocked cabinets and push motorcycles out of garages in the dead of night. They swap or sell stolen watches, lawn mowers and sneakers for potent painkillers like OxyContin...
...even as they disparage the system as a whole. They're more demanding now. "It's not our nature as a people to be grateful," says one Minister. That's why the damage to Blair's credibility from failing to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq is still potent. When he claims that hospital waiting lists are down, or student test scores are up, Tory leader Michael Howard simply replies, "You can't believe a word he says...
...uncooked meats and other food products such as eggs. Once in the blood, its surface coat can trigger septic shock, a hyperaggressive immune response that can lead to liver and kidney failure and a dangerous drop in blood pressure. Confined to a tumor, however, the bacterium could be a potent cancer killer. Like the measles virus, salmonella zeroes in naturally on tumor cells. "If an animal has a tumor, that tumor is salmonella's favorite place to go," says David Bermudes, director of microbiology at Vion. With a simple change in the bacterium's genome, the Vion team and Yale...
...successful as early trials suggest. Like AIDS cocktails and cancer chemotherapies, microbe-based therapies may require a multidrug approach. For example, combining the modified clostridium bacterium, which attacks a tumor at its anaerobic core, with the altered measles virus, which destroys the periphery of the tumor, could be a potent new way to fight cancer. Add some radiation or chemotherapy to mop up any lingering cancer cells, and doctors could find themselves closing in on a cure...
vade the listener’s mind. The seat-restrained crowd went especially wild echoing the crisp vocals of “Evil,” their popular latest single, as they were drowned in a potent drum-and-bass beat...