Word: successful
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...depicting the cowboy as a moral loner who preserves the peace and his own honor by shooting faster and surer than the competition. The old gangster movies gave us opposite versions of the same character. Little Caesar is simply an illegal Lone Ranger, with the added element of success in the free market. In more recent movies, guns are displayed as art objects, people die in balletic slow motion, and right prevails if you own "the most powerful handgun in the world." I doubt that any of this nonsense causes violence, but after decades of repetition, it does invoke boredom...
...maddeningly for U.S. officials, Colombia's traffickers seem to be winning. According to McCaffery, 80% of the cocaine that reaches the U.S. and an increasing amount of heroin are produced in Colombia. Partly that is because of the success of U.S. aerial spraying in Bolivia and Peru. The Colombian traffickers, instead of shutting down their operations, began paying off farmers in the southeastern part of the country to begin wide-scale planting of coca and heroin. Data from U.S. satellites indicate "an explosion" of drug growth inside Colombia over the next couple of years, McCaffery says, and that means more...
...cells are so radically different from normal ones that it's almost impossible to untangle the sequence of events that made them that way. So for years researchers have been attacking the problem by taking normal cells and trying to determine what changes will turn them cancerous--always without success...
Harvard Book Store Manager Isabella Reitzel said the quality of the series' speakers have made the program a success...
Harvard Book Store Manager Isabella Reitzel said the quality of the series' speakers have made the program a success...