Word: necks
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...naturally, before her first Olympics, she knew she'd win five track-and-field gold medals. Even a phenomenon's reach must exceed her sprint: Jones won three golds and two bronzes. Unfortunately, that was not the only weight she would have to wear around her neck in Sydney. After she won her first gold, devastating the field in the women's 100 m, came news that her husband, shot putter C. J. Hunter, had tested positive for performance-enhancing substances. Jones questioned the timing of the revelation, which did not implicate her, but didn't blame...
...sanity in the form of Onyx-015, a virus that works exactly as he envisioned. Last year the company reported results of a clinical trial in which Onyx-015 injections, in combination with chemotherapy, melted away tumors in eight out of 30 patients with recurrent, late-stage head and neck cancer. In another study involving 27 patients whose cancers had metastasized to the liver (a condition that usually kills in six months), 11 were still alive nearly two years after being treated with a high dose of Onyx...
...jamming treatments use monoclonal antibodies, tiny proteins that resemble the human immune system’s own antibodies but which bind to the surface of cancer cells. New York-based ImClone Systems has an antibody called IMC-C225, now in the final phases of testing in colorectal and head and neck cancer, that acts like bubble gum stuffed in a keyhole. It prevents a specialized protein known as a growth factor from fitting into a slot on the surface of the cancer cell and signaling it to reproduce...
Arja had been shot while he walked with his father to buy fruit, according to family members. The boy peered around a concrete barrier near the border fence and, as he turned, was hit by a large-caliber round through his neck. The exit wound tore out the boy's throat. Masry filled the throat with gauze, sewed the skin over it and put the child into one of the morgue's Japanese-made freezer trays at 3[Degrees]C. He pulled off the green mask he wears over his bushy gray beard as he works on the cadavers...
...sudden yearning to reconnect. Says Bank: "Your children leave home, your friends are sick, the leaves fall off the trees, and you say, 'Well, what do I have from my past?' And for better or worse, you've got this sibling who might have been a pain in the neck but who probably knows more about what it was like to live in your childhood home than anybody else...