Word: profound
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...happen. Over the past two decades, Alzheimer's research has exploded to such an extent that a revolution in treatment seems likely. "We now have almost an embarrassment of riches," says Dr. Kenneth Kosik, a professor of neurology at the Harvard Medical School. "Not only do we have a profound knowledge of the biology of the disease but we also have multiple targets around which drugs can be designed...
...Beyond that, nobody can make predictions with any accuracy, but there is reason to hope that within the next 25 years new drugs will be able to ameliorate most if not all cancers and maybe even cure some of them. "We are in the midst of a complete and profound change in our development of cancer treatments," says Richard Klausner, director of the National Cancer Institute. The main upshot of this change is the sheer number of drugs in development--so many that they threaten to swamp clinical researchers' capacity to test them...
...then Conrad, to climb the final 20 ft. to the summit. We'd been on the move for 14 hours. My back hurt, and I had lost all feeling in my toes. But as my eyes wandered across the frozen vastness of Queen Maud Land, a sense of profound contentment radiated from somewhere beneath my solar plexus. There was nowhere on earth that I would have preferred...
...your movie, which has had the most profound effect in your native China? Do the people welcome your candor with issues such as homosexuality...
...voice for each one. She intrepidly attempts to address the conflict of old values and new, western values through the interplay between Ilana and Sashie. However, an analysis of dishtowels, tea leaves and hospitalization from two perspectives destroys the potential depth of this exchange. Budnitz tries to be too profound in her simplification, taking on too large a human theme within too small of a context...