Word: resister
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...cliché has it, the ghost haunting the attic of everyone's mind, but the movies don't usually play it that way. They turn it into melodrama's force majeure, the sneering, swaggering (and generally well-armed) bully it is the hero's duty to resist and ultimately defeat - thoughts of his own inevitable mortality being matters for that last reel that no one ever bothers to shoot. Or think about...
...Only males who could withstand the negative fallout of higher testosterone levels are showing the signals of having better genes to resist disease,” Marlowe said...
...associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), co-led the project, which has been ongoing for 15 months. Willem Sturm, the Interim Dean of the Nelson Mandela School of Medicine in South Africa, was the project’s other leader. The project focused on multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) and a strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) that had recently killed 45 people in KwaZulu-Natal. The collection and identification of the strains took place in South Africa, while the scientists at the Broad Institute incubated and sequenced the genes. Although TB genes have...
...Pompadour] was a great target because of her maiden name, ‘puissant,’ or fish,” Darnton said. “The [Parisians] couldn’t resist the temptation for puns...
Back home during Thanksgiving break, I was continually tormented with a feverish desire. At the dinner table, in the restroom, upstairs in my room with the door shut, often with the aid of my cell phone—I couldn’t resist. I had to check my e-mail. This is not my cross to bear alone, however. E-mail fixation is a Harvard-wide fetish. If you have never felt a similar gnawing concern about what might be occupying your inbox or grimaced as you opened Gmail after a computer-less weekend, you are probably...