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Understanding how to override the microRNA could allow scientists to activate the virus and then kill it using acyclovir. "Once the virus sticks its head up over the fence, you whack it off for good," Cullen says. "Yes, the person has to have one last cold sore, but it'd be worth it to most people to cure them forever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Cure for Cold Sores? | 7/2/2008 | See Source »

...last year, he said, no one thought that a black guy named Barack Obama was going to beat the best Democratic brand name, the Clintons. "The problem," he said, "is once you're a front-runner, it's the obligation of the candidates who are behind to try and whack you over the head." He acknowledged the furor over his former pastor's comments and his own San Francisco statements, but he said, there's something about his campaign "that's right, that's true." More pointedly, he argued that when he goes up against the putative Republican nominee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's 'Electability' Code for Race? | 5/6/2008 | See Source »

...have whack taste and you work hard, your shit will suck, unavoidably probably,” says D.A. Wallach ’07. “If you have good taste but you don’t work hard there might be a glimmer of hope in it. But if you think you have good taste and you work hard then that’s the best shot you can give yourself...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: French Connected | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

Wallach aggressively throws several of the condom-singles into the crowd, bruising audience member Amy Phillips, a reviewer for Pitchforkmedia.com. Phillips will ultimately decide the band has whack taste: her write-up denounces Chester French as “beyond terrible” and mocks Wallach for being a “Napoleon Dynamite-looking front man pretending...

Author: By Nayeli E. Rodriguez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: French Connected | 4/3/2008 | See Source »

...firm thinks it can stand out: extending treatment to the home, where the brand is well known. For instance, heart patients can be monitored from their living rooms using Philips' new Motiva device, which checks vital signs via a broadband link to a hospital. If something is out of whack, a nurse will intervene; a regular checkup might uncover the problem too late...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Complex Task of Simplicity | 2/21/2008 | See Source »

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