Word: resists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...white Dell Poweredge, hooked into a refrigerator-size rack of network routers and, from there, via a thumb-thick black cable, to the infinite abundance of the Internet. Edward Zeng, the 35-year-old Chinese entrepreneur who commands this tiny outpost in the battle for information freedom, can't resist a grin as he looks around the modest but astonishing room buried within a warren of offices in the bunker-like hallways under Beijing's Capital Stadium. As state-sponsored basketball and badminton teams practice overhead, Zeng pats one of his purring servers and ponders an altogether more dramatic kind...
...Geez, how square can you get? No postmodernist, pre-apocalyptic ironies; a not-entirely-improbable cataclysmic threat--a giant comet hurtling earthward with no funny aliens anywhere in sight; special effects that serve the story plausibly; and a certain largely understated courage, as representative examples of humankind attempt to resist or try to accept the awful fate awaiting them. There's something curiously refreshing in the soberly inspirational way Deep Impact embraces the conventions of the old-fashioned disaster movie. You find yourself hoping that when Armageddon arrives, somebody as sensible, humane and good-fatherish as Morgan Freeman...
...which the body unaccountably attacks itself. In such disorders, the immune system is hyper-vigilant, prepared to fight off enemy viruses at all times. But when no such enemies are present, the immune system turns against its own tissues. This in turn weakens the body's ability to resist viral infection, and the vicious cycle plays itself out ad infinitum. It's unclear whether the viruses cause the disease or the disease causes the viruses. It is known that Graves' Disease is hereditary to a certain extent, although there is no clear way to predict when it will develop...
Another long shot for Mary could be a claim that Vili raped her, since she was vulnerable and didn't have the will to resist his come-ons. So far, however, Mary has avoided putting any legal burdens on her young lover. Meanwhile, her friends and lawyers are bickering about how to proceed. The infighting has worsened in the past few weeks. Howards has tried, unsuccessfully, to get them all to shut up, and she is the only one who isn't talking...
Eddie, in other words, has stumbled into a domestic nightmare. Ted, who treats his pain with alcohol and philandering, has grown weary of his wife's grief; he figures, correctly, that Marion will not be able to resist Eddie, who is so close in age to the dead sons. For her part, Marion plans to run away from both her unfaithful husband and the daughter she is afraid to love lest she lose her too. Marion uses Eddie, who has fallen into bed and love with her, to help her get away. She takes almost all the photographs...