Word: badness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...soon allowed himself to be swept into the risk-loving fraternity of day traders who try to make a living hunched over a computer terminal, betting on the daily gyrations of individual stocks (see accompanying story). By this year Barton was a full-time day trader. But things turned bad this summer. Barton had lost about $105,000 since June, almost all of it on volatile Internet stocks, according to Momentum Securities, where he traded most recently. Some reports said his account there had been closed on Tuesday after he was unable to meet a margin call--a brokerage firm...
...literally--in field offices of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. Nonetheless, it has caused a tectonic change in how police around the country view gun crime. Now police routinely ask a basic question that, contrary to popular belief, they used to ask only rarely: Where did the bad guys get their guns...
...majority of license holders turned out to be the kitchen-table variety. Most seemed to be hobbyists who merely used their licenses to buy guns at wholesale prices. But across the nation, police and ATF, prodded by the press, discovered kitchen-table dealers who had become conduits to the bad guys, in some cases selling thousands of firearms...
...their research from an unsuspecting public. Which left the defense spluttering that Ms. Lovett?s obesity carried its own risks; she knew what she was getting into. The jury didn?t buy it. "It?s not like cigarettes, where everyone supposedly knows they?re bad for you. This was a marketed drug whose dangers turned up later," says Cohen. "Any accusation that Wyeth-Ayerst knew about it beforehand is really going to resonate with a jury." And with Americans, as a population, reaching ever-higher levels of obesity, that?s a lot of sympathetic juries...
...More promise may lie in a sort of mimicry, studying the body?s own approach to fighting cells that go bad ? and Thursday saw some success on that front too. Publishing in Science magazine, a team from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston have identified a protein, called Fas ligand, that they think is the body?s own treatment for skin cancer from within. You may know it as peeling. "The body?s traditional respose to mutation is ?You change, you die,?" says Gorman. "When a skin cell sustains enough sun damage to its DNA that it may turn...