Word: proofing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Nine years later, McCormick, now the director of the Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California, San Francisco, has proof of his 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...
...that," says an aide. They felt a whiff of excitement and boatloads of relief. Dick Cheney was at the movies when the news broke. An aide called from transition headquarters, and Cheney picked up the call in the dark theater. He was watching the new Meg Ryan thriller, Proof of Life...
...network that pays you to argue with Greta Van Susteren in a fake courtroom on "Burden of Proof" is not paying you to be responsible. They're paying you for answers, now: If the answers are correct, that's gravy, but if you throw in a few ass-covering caveats, nobody'll remember in the morning. He finally came up with the general impression that the case was being overturned and sent back to Florida, where recounts might or might not resume, but - that classic hedge of Postelection 2000 - "this isn't over...
...sufficiently sympathetic, and the tension escalates like Bolero, stopping just short of a declaration of war. Soon after, Peter is abducted. In most movies, someone who is to be killed or imperiled gets a soppy farewell scene. This jarring confrontation gives Proof of Life another reason to bring Peter back alive--so he and Alice can forgive each other...
...Casablanca triangle: an idealist, his conflicted wife and the adventurer who can save a life by breaking a heart. Proof of Life isn't quite at that level of romantic melodrama, but its wit, vigor and rue make it a superior entertainment--and a lot more illuminating than the real-life romance it sparked...