Word: slow
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...Bird flu is a crisis that's unfolding in slow motion. We know for certain that it has killed 60 people. It may be years, even decades before it spreads easily from human to human and becomes pandemic. But if that happens this year, we're in trouble...
...subset of patients. Such a policy would not only speed vital information to doctors, it would also spur drug companies to focus on creating truly novel medications rather than minor variations on existing themes, what many researchers call "me too" drugs. "The pace of innovation has been slow," says Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman, chairman of the psychiatry department at Columbia University Medical Center and lead author of the study...
Love and music-listening are more often about slow-burning simmers or trial-and-error processes than about revelatory moments in which the song Natalie Portman gives you actually changes your life. And it’s comforting for a video to acknowledge that, I suppose...
When you’re in the womb, all you need to hear is a slow thumping and the muffled soundtrack of a language you can’t understand yet. The band has even invented a funny little way to put us all into that irretrievable state of nature. They write a bunch of their songs in “Hopelandish,” a nonsense language that’s intended to allow the listener to interpret the lyrics however he or she so desires...
Racing frantically along like a Nordic horse under the light of Nick Drake’s “Pink Moon,” the opening track, “Slow Moves,” paradoxically features some of the most driving guitar work of the album, pulling the listener into the whispered world of “Veneer” with its repetitive strums and sparkling open chords...