Word: prolonging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...steals two nuclear weapons, shows how easily the two cinemas can coexist. It flies at the speed of Macho 2 while allowing Woo to unpack his full cinematic arsenal: overhead shots, plenty of steamy atmosphere (Travolta smokes a lot), Cuisinart editing of the action scenes, slow motion to prolong the jitters and, for dialogue scenes that other directors would stand flatfooted and watch, lithe little tracking shots. If film school were fun, Woo would be the nutty professor...
From the beginning to the end of human existence on this earth, everyone has had three prime events in one's life--birth, marriage or the equivalent and death. Since one can do nothing about the first and last, obviously copulation with the opposite sex to prolong the race is necessary. In that act the female orgasm is important, much more than for the male, and the key to that is in the clitoris, QED. --Richard N. Frye Emeritus Professor of Iranian
Much remains to be done. There are serious concerns over how much the drugs will cost and whether they will be in short supply. Moreover, it is still not clear just how long they can prolong life. But for the first time doctors may have at their disposal an arsenal of weapons that can battle the virus at virtually every stage of its life cycle--not just in the final days but from the earliest months after infection. Says Dr. Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology in San Francisco: "It seems as if the tide...
...weeks ago to reverse the course of his disease, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital infused him with an experimental bone-marrow transplant from a baboon. Immunologists warned that his body would eventually reject the nonhuman tissue and that the operation would almost certainly end his life rather than prolong it. However, Getty is not only alive, but last week he was healthy enough to go home from the hospital. No matter how much time he has left, friends and family call him a medical miracle...
Cornell will need strong efforts from co-Ivy League Player of the Week Rob Elliott and Ivy League leading goal scorer Eric Kusseluk is it hopes to prolong its ten-game winning streak--the longest in school history...