Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...much remains unclear about the details of the actual event for us to say with certainty whether or not what happened to the two Harvard students constituted racial harassment on the part of Cambridge police...
According to Harvard Police Chief Paul E. Johnson and Cambridge Police Lt. Donald Carney, the students were mistaken for a white suspect in a simultaneous nearby convenience store theft. It is unclear whether the searching officers were aware of the description of the actual suspect, who was arrested later that night by Harvard Police...
...cystic fibrosis and could eventually develop new drugs to treat or even prevent them. The same would be true for more common disorders like heart disease and cancer, which at the very least have large genetic components. Better knowledge of the genome could speed development of gene therapy -- the actual alteration of instructions in the human genome to eliminate genetic defects...
...Steven Rosenberg, both at the NIH, to transplant a bacterial gene into cancer patients. While this gene is intended only to make it easier for doctors to monitor an experimental cancer treatment and will not benefit the patients, its successful implantation should help pave the way for actual gene therapy...
That paved the way for a Huntington's gene test, which is now available. The actual gene has not yet been isolated and since there is no cure at present, many people at risk for Huntington's are reluctant to take it. "Before the test," Wexler says, "you can always say, 'Well, it can't happen to me.' After the test, if it is positive, you can't say that anymore." Has Wexler, 43, taken the test? "People need to have some privacy," she answers...