Word: furthering
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Another gene, newly dubbed the parkin gene, has also been getting a lot of attention. In 1998, Japanese researchers were studying a young patient with early-onset Parkinson’s and found a recessive gene that appeared to be associated with the disease. Though relatively rare, the parkin gene is...
Israel's army and its political leaders know that Palestinian casualties, particularly among children like Wael, serve only to inflame the Aqsa intifadeh further. The Israeli army maintains that it has refined its tactics in the past few years in an attempt to reduce the number killed at demonstrations. Yet...
Scrooge never dressed so smartly. Wall Street wolf Jack Campbell (Cage) looks cool and talks cruel: there?s a big merger brewing, so everyone in his mergers and acquisitions firm will work on Christmas day. But Scrooges have to sleep on Christmas Eve; that's when revelations and atonement come...
Houellebecq further evades adequate characterizations of the two men by assigning them pat philosophical summaries of everything from Kant to Huxley in lieu of giving them actual thoughts. It is not rare that one encounters such grand generalities as, "He was surprised at how miserable he felt. Far removed from...
The court, despite its place as the guardian of justice, has always been a political institution. For evidence of this, one need look no further than the recent campaign. Abortion was one of the few issues on which Bush and Vice President Al Gore '69 strongly disagreed, and activists on...