Word: accidental
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Finding a likely target, of course, doesn't guarantee success. Consider colon cancer: scientists believe at least three things have to go wrong for colon cancers to form. They liken the situation to a car accident. One of the genes that tells cells to divide (the accelerator) must get stuck...
Those commercials--pay $1 and you could save a life!--confound me. On the one hand, relative to kids starving to death in India and Africa (and even here in the United States), all of us have it pretty good. If anything, these ads drive home the fact that our...
8. Folk-rocker, later Congressman who died in a skiing accident.
DIED. CLAYTON ("Peg Leg") BATES, 91, one-legged tap dancer; in Fountain Inn, S.C. Bates didn't let an accident that severed his leg at the age of 12 keep him from dancing. Wearing a wooden limb outfitted with metal taps, he hoofed from the 1920s to 1989; appeared in...
In Rio's main railroad terminal, Dora, a sour old woman (uncompromisingly played by Fernanda Montenegro), scratches out a living writing letters for the illiterate. When a customer is killed in an accident, the dead woman's son (the winsomely suspicious Vinicius de Oliveira) becomes Dora's responsibility. The two...