"You don't have to form a snake-killing committee to kill a snake, " says Thomas Zimmerman, the plant's UAW chairman.

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The results were good, so he moved on to human trials, not for Alzheimer's disease but for a more rare disease called amyloidosis, in which SAP causes protein clumps to form elsewhere in the body, destroying organs and eventually killing the patients.

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However co-boss Sheridan, who as a player with Barnsley helped pull off giant-killing feats on both Liverpool and Manchester United, believes Barrow can upset the form book against Graham Westley's outfit.

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Scotland is certainly in red hot form and his goal-scoring display in Swansea's FA Cup giant-killing at holders Portsmouth earned him universal praise.

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On December 8th Kay Gilderdale, a policeman's ex-wife, was arrested on suspicion of killing her 31-year-old daughter, bedridden and virtually immobilised for 16 years with a virulent form of chronic-fatigue syndrome (ME).

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