The clever bit was that the receiving nanoparticles, which carried the pharmaceutical payload, were doped with protein fragments that bind to fibrin and thus to the wound-stanching quilts that form when the heat from the gold nanorods does its work.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

Al Qaeda in Iraq's (AQI) unrestrained violence and imposition of Taliban ideology on Iraqis was a self-inflicted wound provoking a countrywide Sunni backlash against AQI in the form of 'Awakening' militias allied with the United States.

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Only in politics and government, when the hired hands come up short, are they allowed to get away with flicking spitballs at each other as the country waits for results -- spitballs in the form of purportedly clever attack lines packaged and issued by advisers, meant to wound the other side, yet doing nothing to further the completion of the jobs at hand.

CNN: Why do we pay politicians for no results?