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Gore's toughest attack is aimed at Bush's economic plan. When Gore unleashes the argument, his words uncoil like a viper. "I think that his politics are 20 years old at the core. We've been there, done that, didn't work, still payin' the bill," he says. "It is ridiculous, if we've got a $1.4 trillion surplus over the next 10 years, that his tax cut alone is $1.6 trillion, and then his Social Security privatization is another trillion, and then his defense and other spending increases are another $450 billion, and that doesn't even count...
Some of the most promising natural wonder drugs come from compounds not usually associated with healing: poisons. Merck is marketing a blood thinner based on the venom of the deadly saw-scaled viper. A protein from another Asian pit viper is being studied because it appears to inhibit the spread of melanoma cells, and a compound called SNX-482 from the venom of the Cameroon red tarantula may lead to new treatments for neurological disorders...
...band has amplified and started to play some local clubs. North House enthusiasts heard the musicians' original tunes at T.T. the Bear's in Central Square and at the Loeb Ex last month. At a climactic moment, they stumbled upon a legitimate chance to play at L.A.'s famous Viper Room, owned by Johnny Depp--where River Phoenix met his untimely death...
...with Harvard finals over this great opportunity. While the guys might have envisioned themselves narrating stories of this offer to their great-grandchildren, Warren describes the situation a little differently: "It was never really a real prospect to me. We didn't even submit a demo." Okay...but, the Viper Room? That's still a score, and in anybody's book, the "remote possibility" is as good as done...
...spectacularly unsuited for this European model of management. Eaton shaped a team of hotshots led by product wizards Bob Lutz and Francois Castaing. In addition to inventing the minivan and sport-utility vehicle, categories that are such profit machines today, Chrysler's designers proved with models like the Viper and the Prowler that cars don't have to be boring...