Word: venom
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...saintly Albert Schweitzer, who went out of his way to avoid stepping on bugs, didn't hesitate to shoot the beings whose distinguishing characteristics are a slithering gait, a forked tongue and hypodermic-needle fangs that can (if they belong to Australia's cobra-like inland taipan) deliver enough venom in a single bite to kill 200,000 mice...
...pair of pajamas that had been dried on the backyard line when he felt a sharp pain in his left knee. He slapped at the spot, shook his pajama leg and out tumbled a bee. The next day Oliver's knee was tender, swollen and hot with venom. After another day or two, a curious thing happened: as the pain from the sting subsided, the ache from the arthritis in that knee began to diminish as well. A few weeks later, the swelling in all of Oliver's joints was gone. A short while after that, the chronic body-wide...
...There's a long history of studies documenting the benefits of animal venom," Weil says today. "Bee venom in particular contains some very powerful anti-inflammatory compounds. Oliver was the lucky beneficiary of that...
...movie's star, who was on location in Australia for another film. When the actor didn't show up for their meeting, Noyce sighed and thought, "Well, this is Val Kilmer." That would be Val Kilmer the Hollywood bad boy, whose very name spurs some directors to spit venom. Noyce walked outside and into a dark street, then became aware of someone following him. "I stopped in a doorway and looked over my shoulder, but no one was there. Suddenly, Val materialized right behind me and whispered in my ear, 'Are you looking for someone...
...worried that I had somehow misattributed this fine-tuned criticism to gender issues, so I looked long and hard for men that were picked on about their appearance. However, even the harshest critique of President Clinton or Bob Dole in jogging shorts were nothing compared to the venom spit during the Hillary Clinton headband debate...