Word: arms
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Above all, You Never Can Tell rejoices in the delights of the improbable actually happening. Shaw manages to "stretch the long arm of coincidence" without stretching our credulity too far. The play should be great entertainment, as long as you keep the creed of Walter the Waiter in mind: "It's the unexpected that always happens--you never can tell...
...recognizes the threat to the environment and the necessity for a global burden sharing to control it," says Maneka Gandhi, former Minister of the Environment, who represented India at the Montreal Protocol negotiations. "But is it fair that the industrialized countries who are responsible for the ozone depletion should arm-twist the poorer nations into bearing the cost of their mistakes...
Attempts to strong-arm a community into rejecting a leader or an ideology are usually counterproductive. They make people feel isolated and defensive, which only makes them more willing to embrace a Kurt Waldheim or a Leonard Jeffries...
...were trying to find the cause of the disease," she says, "and while it might not help them, it could help their children and grandchildren." She told the villagers that her mother had died of Huntington's and that she might also be stricken. Holding up her right arm, she pointed to a tiny biopsy scar and revealed that she too had contributed a skin sample for analysis. "They really understood that," Nancy says, "and I think they soon realized that we meant them no harm. I became sort of like a family friend, with syringe...
...unnecessary) and blood samples were sent, along with pedigree data, to James Gusella, a young Canadian scientist working at Massachusetts General Hospital. Using a new technique, he was able to locate a DNA marker close to the Huntington's gene. It lay toward the tip of the short arm of chromosome 4. That discovery led to the development of a test, now 96% accurate, that can determine the presence of the errant gene long before any symptoms show...