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...also have been the dumbest. Most of the mink were babies--many of them unweaned and unable to live for long without their mother. The rest were typically ornery, aggressive adult mink that had been raised in captivity and didn't know enough to scatter into the hills. Instead, they fought and killed one another. By the end of last week, according to Arritola, some 2,000 of the infants had perished and at least 400 of his 1,600 adult females were missing or dead...
...most desperately wanted the mantle of the era's foremost separator of church and state. Madalyn O'Hair was a heavy woman with a strong voice and jaw who even in repose resembled, as author Lawrence Wright once observed, "a bowling ball looking for new pins to scatter." She was an Army veteran and a law-school graduate and a big talker. Most important, she was an atheist...
...compound takes a novel approach to the familiar flu virus. It targets an enzyme, called neuraminidase, that the virus needs in order to scatter copies of itself throughout the body. This enzyme acts like a pair of molecular scissors that slices through the protective mucous linings of the nose and throat. After the virus infects the cells of the respiratory system and begins replicating, neuraminidase cuts the newly formed copies free to invade other cells. By blocking this enzyme, the new compound, dubbed GS 4104, prevents the infection from spreading. Other drug companies have tried targeting neuraminidase...
...stage classic takes place in the timeless litter and scatter of academia: the lives and living room of a middle-aged New England university history professor and his slightly older wife. George (Robert Ayres) and Martha (Lynne Moulton) return at 2 a.m., sloshed, from yet another faculty get-together hosted by the president of the college--Martha's father...
Where the Quad Houses have traditionally attracted large numbers of minority students--last year, almost 50 percent of Pforzheimer House residents were students of color--randomization will scatter minorities among the larger white population...