Word: victors
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This baying, to be sure, did not noticeably discourage the guest athletes. The Canadians, who had not won a gold medal in Olympic swim competition since 1912, collected four golds, three silvers and three bronzes. Their heroes, two-time gold Medleyist Alex Baumann and Breaststroker Victor Davis, who have maple leaves tattooed on their chests, and Breaststroker Anne Ottenbrite, who does not, cheerfully threw Frisbees into the crowd on their way to get their medals. The Dutch women may have deserved an award for the most medals from the smallest country: a total of six, including Petra Van Staveren...
...chemical features, or antigens, of an infectious agent, it can produce specific weapons, or antibodies, against it. With malaria, however, there are three faces to recognize. Each stage is marked by different antigens, and antibodies against one stage will not provide protection against another. Nussenzweig and her immunologist husband Victor decided to focus their efforts on a sporozoite vaccine. In 1967 she showed that it was possible to protect mice against malaria by injecting them with sporozoites that had been rendered harmless by irradiation. The same result was achieved in a small number of human subjects. But there...
...able to identify the specific antigen, found on the surface of the sporozoite, that is responsible for producing immunity to this stage of the parasite, and they were able to unravel part of the chemical structure of the antigen. To their surprise, it was quite simple. So simple, says Victor Nussenzweig, "that it can be very easily synthesized using plain, old-fashioned chemistry." Nonetheless, a vaccine based on the antigen still faces "a lot of pitfalls," warns Top of Walter Reed. Indeed, many scientists question whether any vaccine can prompt the immune system to react fast enough to catch sporozoites...
...setting is an imaginary empire. An abortive revolution has been quelled by the General (Baritone Victor Braun). A deserter is executed; later, his wife and her mother, who have been looting corpses in order to survive, are also shot. Sickened by the carnage, the General turncoats and is imprisoned in an insane asylum. There the inhabitants obsessively recite litanies of violence as they tear their hair and rend their clothes. When the General once again refuses an order to take the field on behalf of king and country, his eyes are put out. Images of his victims appear before...
...Angeles, Hill likened a foot-high pile of allegations, suits and countersuits to the movie Rashomon, in which "every event is reported entirely differently by every person who saw it." The cast of the courtroom drama includes Coppola, Producer Robert Evans and Investors Fred and Edward Doumanl and Victor Sayyah, who have been waging a bitter back-lot struggle for control of the way-over-budget ($58 million in all, some say) Harlem jazz-era epic with Richard Gere, Diane Lane and Gregory Nines. Says Evans of Coppola, in one reported sample of the prevailing civility: "He has as much...