Word: benignity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While all these new techniques could mean more reproductive choices for the infertile, they could also create tricky ethical and legal issues. Indeed, almost every clinical advance in assisted reproduction leads to unforeseen dilemmas. Take ICSI, which on its face seems utterly benign. In some cases, male infertility may be caused by a genetic defect; helping a man with such a defect reproduce could result in passing the defect on to his son. Also, since sperm can be obtained surgically, they have in a few cases been recovered from men killed in accidents, and then used to father children...
...thus invalidate her claims. No matter. Her attorney had her IQ tested to prove competency (145 IQ at age 78). I certainly knew that she wasn't nuts and that she would not accuse someone without reason. Your report on "awareness" survivors has put everything into place. What a benign term for such a traumatic experience! KATHIE MARSHALL Encino, Calif...
MISSION: High-altitude voyeurism. The reconnaissance plane collects multisensor photo, electro-optic, infrared and radar imagery--day or night and in all kinds of weather. It's been used to peek at everyone from Khrushchev to Castro to Ho Chi Minh, left. Among its more benign photo ops: floods, volcanoes and crops...
...there's the defiant silence of the victims, caretakers of a musty but prestigious museum, who fear that any utterance, no matter how benign, might sabotage their highest hopes in years...
Connor, who can seem utterly benign as he weaves one story onto the tail of another, and another, and another, changes instantly when the names of certain cops, or that judge, are uttered. His eyes bug out, his neck tenses, and another Myles, a chilling character, crawls out of his skin. He breathes fire when he calls the judge "a vapid windbag and a pathetic martinet...