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...bite my nail. I tie my shoe. I make sure old shifty-eyes hasn't taken my wallet. I pull out a strand of my hair and inspect the follicle...
...needed to stop the AIDS virus. They discovered that when the drug enters a human cell, it is converted by a human enzyme into a "false sugar" ) that resembles, but is not identical to, the sugar used by the AIDS virus' reverse transcriptase to help build a DNA strand. If the AIDS enzyme mistakenly adds a false sugar molecule to the DNA chain, DNA synthesis is halted. So, they reasoned, further reproduction of the virus would be stopped...
...unthreatening candidate to those who do not share his religious fervor. Yet a fund-raising letter referring to the success his delegate candidates were having in Michigan began with the exultation "The Christians have won! . . . What a breakthrough for the Kingdom!" In addition, he belongs to the charismatic strand of Evangelicalism that discomfits even some fellow Evangelicals. In the TV studio, Robertson has prayed openly for healings and miracles, calling on the power of God to cure maladies in his audience as diverse as cancer and a slipped disk. He has written openly of his experiences in speaking in tongues...
There are no skyscrapers or neon signs. The largest building around is the Strand Hotel, left over from colonial days, where you can get a lobster dinner for four bucks. But the city is really dominated by the Shwedagon Pagoda, a huge golden dome three kilometers above the city, surrounded on eight sides by smaller pagodas in resplendent red and silver. Both the men and women on the streets wear the traditional longgyi, a tube-shaped piece of cloth knotted at the waist and falling to the ankles. Even children, but especially old women, smoke sold everywhere on the sidewalks...
...told a news conference in a cramped storefront near the Times Square porno district that serves as the offices of Women Against Pornography. "Women actually succeeded in convincing a national governmental body of a truth that women have long known: pornography harms women and children." Hunter tapped a different strand of feminist thinking: women should seek liberation, not special protection from the state. "Protectionist attitudes," she said, "ultimately hurt women." Friedan once again declared that the war against porn is a woeful waste of energies needed on the economic and legal fronts. Said she: "As repulsive as pornography...