Word: vanquished
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...something in common with other brain disorders such as Parkinson's, Huntington's and mad-cow disease. Like them, it appears to be caused by misfolded proteins--in this case, beta amyloid and tau. And so one day in the 21st century it may become possible to vanquish Alzheimer's with a vaccine that targets these miscreants, or a new class of drugs that prevents them from forming. Kosik even has a name for these drugs--"broad-spectrum anti-aggregates," he calls them, after the broad-spectrum antibiotics that played such an important role in 20th century medicine...
...light of the potential benefits which exist for the musicians themselves, it is unwise for the music industry to continue their frontal assault on MP3s. Attempts to vanquish MP3 production and distribution completely are fated to fail, for the system is already wildly popular and widely in use. Attacks on individual sites are similarly futile; not only is it often difficult to track down a site's creator, but it is nearly impossible to prosecute because laws out-lawing the practice are currently nonexistent...
...saws, morphine and crude remedies that were about as effective as bloodletting. The flu epidemic of 1918 killed as many people (more than 20 million) in just a few months as were killed in four years of World War I. Since then, antibiotics and vaccines have allowed us to vanquish entire classes of diseases. As a result, life expectancy in the U.S. jumped from about 47 years at the beginning of the century...
...like this: one man tested in crisis; the victor emergent from the sweat and roil of combat; gifted with superhuman size and godlike strength; and, perhaps most important, confronted with the brutal and inescapable vulnerability that all great athletes must face--the daily threat that an inferior force might vanquish them. Athletic heroism attains the heights of glory through its very proximity to defeat. And it dramatizes the worth of workaday values we want our kids and our neighbors' kids to absorb: diligent attention to practice and homework, concentration, persistence, equanimity, teamwork...
...will about the Internet and the wonders of multimedia. At the end of the day, most people still prefer to leave their brain at the office and morph themselves into couch potatoes--watching Michael Jordan dazzle opponents or Mel Gibson vanquish villains. In the battle for home- entertainment supremacy, the den is no match for the living room...