Word: supers
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...plot couldn't be more typical. Z (Allen) is one of two individualistic ants in a colony which (like any good super-organism) demands subservience if it is to survive. Depressed by his insignificance, Z follows his heart and breaks the rules to court the Princess Bala (Stone). Gump-style, Allen becomes a war hero and accidentally escapes with the princess, inciting the colony to rebellion by his example of disobedience. As it turns out, the insubordinance is well timed, since the Colony's other individualistic ant (voiced by Gene Hackman), has plans to work the colony to death...
...Next month the agency will assess a promising blood-filtration device that clears the body of arthritis-promoting substances the same way kidney dialysis cleans the blood of toxins. Within a few months the FDA will also consider a new class of anti-inflammatories called COX-2 inhibitors (a.k.a. "super aspirin") that will attack arthritis pain. Says Steven Abramson, an FDA adviser and chief of rheumatology at New York University's Hospital for Joint Diseases: "This is the most exciting time I've witnessed...
...other visits by heads of state, students seated in the specially designated areas had to pass through magnetometers and be wanded by super-scanners...
...slung with a faceful of mud Wednesday night when it was revealed -- by the pro-Clinton netzine Salon -- that he had an extramarital affair with a married woman for five years back in the late 1960s. Soon enough, the aggrieved husband was telling reporters that Hyde was a "super hypocrite" who ruined his life and broke up his family. "He had an affair with a young woman with three children," said 76-year-old retiree Richard Snodgrass. "At least the President didn't do that...
...cyclists, however, staged their sit-down strike the day after police raided a hotel and hauled away some team members for drug tests in the middle of the night. Can you imagine the reaction if cops raided the Super Bowl locker room at half time and hauled off a linebacker for drug tests? That is roughly the equivalent of what the gendarmes did. MIKE VANDERVEER Cheverly...