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...Maybe I hear, and feel, something different in Allyson. The Internet Movie Database Obit describes her as having a "raspy voice," and David Thomson, that most gifted of biographical sketch artists, refers to "her petite, sore-throated charm." To my ear, Allyson was a crooner, her voice a salve to her male co-stars' belligerence, grudges or indecision. Those nectarine vocals suited her sweet looks, and the roles assigned her by MGM, when that studio was still America's arbiter of middle-class propriety...
Investment is a sore subject in Dosbarrios, an agricultural village 60 km south of Madrid. Even though tractors rumble through the dusty streets and strangers are met with open stares, the town learned last month that it's not as isolated as it seems: half of Dosbarrios' 2,400 residents have put their money into an allegedly fraudulent stamp investing scheme that has rocked Spain. "Before, our economic health was very good," says Mayor Juan Bautista Martínez. "Now, it's so-so." Dosbarrios residents are closely watching the unfolding investigation into Afinsa Bienes Tangibles and Forum Filat...
...cure is imminent.“I suppose if we figure out a way to eliminate NKT cells in the lungs, that might be a potential way of curing this disease,” Umetsu says, “but that’s just speculation.”SORE WINNERSIn December, HMS researchers at the CBR Institute for Biomedical Research found they could harness RNA interference (RNAi), an important gene-expression mechanism, to suppress the virus that causes genital herpes.Judy Lieberman, David Knipe, and Deborah Palliser discovered that a 22-base-long strand of RNA, when absorbed by genital...
...without being any less of an American myself, the piggishness of us all. Clearly, there's going to be a global crisis in the amount of petroleum in the world. There's only so much, and there are more people wanting it. No wonder the Third World is sore at us. We're spending the limited reserves of resources about as fast as we can. Our solution is to waste it all and then punt and see what we might do next. It's very easy to sort of look back and think that things were better then, that things...
...fans of the show. “You walk in there, and it’s like being Tom Cruise in China,” he said. “Everyone wants a picture and an autograph—if not more.” A sore-throated Averell told The Crimson that he still felt “out of control” and “a little bit exhausted” last night. Yesterday morning, he and Macniven appeared on CBS’s “The Early Show” and “Regis...