Word: toxically
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...Well, it's a combination of our nutrition and our lack of exercise, which is almost a toxic lifestyle...
...being shot point blank while wearing a bullet-proof vest, something like a Mafia bar mitzvah ("Now you are a man"); a middle-management toughie who, like Tony Soprano, is in the waste removal business (the Camorra holds a monopoly in this industry), dumping drums of toxic sludge; and two punks who quote the Pacino Scarface and think they've hit the jackpot when they stumble on a weapons stash ("Let's rack up corpses," one says, "no use feeling depressed"). Above these scarred, drugged-out creatures are their bosses, wealthy mobsters who remain above...
...particular protein that's made in people with Alzheimer's - which is made from a protein that all of us make, the amyloid precursor protein. [In people with Alzheimer's] that precursor protein is clipped by enzymes in the wrong place, and begins to form these little toxic parts that aggregate [in the brain] and eventually form fibrils and plaques that are the main pathologic feature of Alzheimer's disease. It's not clear why this happens exactly, and a lot of people have been studying it pretty hard. It's also not clear how much of this protein needs...
...this sense, the movie might have been made about Americans today. We can debate the toxic consequences of the U.S. occupation of Iraq, but an equally troubling and potentially more lasting question is the effect of the Iraq occupation on U.S. soldiers. The dreadful nature of that conflict hasn't touched most Americans. Its troops alone bear the scar of war; they carry it home with them - if they come home - and those nightmares may never end. Waltz With Bashir is about the cold fingers of memory that clutch the heart. Forman's exemplary film says that only by exposing...
...starters, Clinton deracialized American politics. He didn't deracialize it completely, of course. But knitting together a coalition of blacks and whites is easier today because Clinton restored the Democrats' credibility on economic issues and took three of the most racially toxic issues in U.S. politics--crime, welfare and affirmative action--off the table...