Word: toxins
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...both movies. If you're a Fundamentalist red-stater, Gibson is a hero. If you're a leftist blue-stater, Moore is, in the words of the New York Times, "a credit to the Republic." The truth is that both movies are different but equally potent forms of cultural toxin--poisonous to debate, to reason and to civility. And the antidote is in shorter and shorter supply...
...DEVELOPED. A method for raising POISONLESS FUGU, or blowfish; by researchers at Nagasaki University; in Japan. Fugu, which can kill a diner if prepared improperly, is prized as a delicacy. Scientists have found that the fish's toxin can be eliminated by replacing its bottom-feeder diet with one of mackerel and sardines...
...quickly suggested that this was probably a case of homegrown terrorism rather than Round 2 of al-Qaeda's assault on the U.S. The likely perpetrator, many still believe, was a malevolent nerd with chemistry-lab expertise and a grudge against the government. But when traces of the biological toxin ricin showed up in Senator Bill Frist's mail room last week, the FBI and other agencies declared there was no evidence pointing to either a foreign culprit or a mad scientist. One possibility under examination: a good ole boy who knows his way around 18-wheelers, weigh stations...
...because the more optimistic candidate nearly always wins, and most recently, it worked for George W. Bush. In the 2000 campaign, pollsters found that even voters who didn't like his tax plan or his inexperience did like him, saw him as a regular guy. Phoniness is a political toxin and charisma, a vaccine, and Edwards claims to have the cure...
...study also yields hope because the potential protease inhibitors identified have a high degree of what Cantley called “bioavailability,” or effectiveness in reaching target sites. The molecules that stopped the spread of anthrax toxin in the clinical study are between 0.5 and 5 micrometers in size—small enough to be able to permeate a human cell membrane...