Word: venoms
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VICTORIOUS VENOM More than half a million patients each year have their clogged arteries Roto-Rootered with balloon angioplasty. Now researchers report that a new clot-busting drug, Integrilin, derived from--hiss!--snake venom, can cut the risk of death and heart attack 40% during the first 48 hours after angioplasty. Integrilin, like its top rival ReoPro, belongs to the "superaspirin" class of drugs. There's at least one difference: ReoPro costs $1,500; Integrilin...
...sometimes views as good vs. evil, he can get himself to a place where he thinks the end justifies the means--and he has come to think that Bush is a bad guy. Never would McCain say such a thing in public, but he blames Bush for the venom that poisoned South Carolina for him. McCain was especially appalled at phone calls that attacked him for having an adopted daughter from Bangladesh and leaflets that recounted his wife's history of addiction to painkillers. As they say in the novels, McCain holds Bush responsible for all that occurred in South...
Spider corpses and snake venom are among the sculptor Cornelia Parker's materials--guillotines and explosives are among her tools. These are the things that keep Parker up at night, "the things that make the hair on the back of my neck stand up," as she puts...