Word: braver
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...based on an ancient formula, practically a folk remedy: a small isolated community is disturbed first by mysterious rumblings, then by alarming disappearances and deaths, after which large, smart, implacable creatures manifest themselves and desperate defenses are improvised by a cast that is not obviously wiser or braver than the average audience...
...nudged the rigid rules of ice dancing, maintaining a single mood throughout their routine. (Not surprisingly, Dean was their choreographer.) The audience roared its approval, but the judges were unusually divided, their scores ranging from 5.0 to 5.8. Other skaters rallied to the Duchesnays' defense. "We're a little braver and ready to be innovative now because of the Duchesnays," said American Joseph Druar...
...write three letters, one to a sports person, one to a political person" and one other, she said. Wisecarver said that she wrote a letter to a local sports celebrity but decided to be a bit braver with her choice of a political personality...
Whether or not the recoveries prove to be long lasting, University of Rochester Neurobiologist John Sladek and Yale Psychiatrist Eugene Redmond see a braver new world ahead. The two scientists reported reversing the effects of Parkinson's in adult African green monkeys by implanting cells from the substantia nigra of monkey fetuses, and believe that fetal brain grafts offer a better bet for Parkinson's patients. Vanderbilt researchers, using fetal nerve-tissue implants in experiments with rats, also reported progress in reducing chemically induced symptoms of Huntington's disease, a fatal genetic brain disorder. Others expressed hope that once...
Many Protestants share the Vatican's alarm over the ever braver worlds of human reproduction that advanced biomedical techniques have made possible. Clinics are now assisting in fertilizations involving donor sperm, donor eggs, donor embryos, single women and lesbian couples. Lawyer George Annas, professor of health law at Boston University's School of Medicine, notes the possibility that a child could have five different parents: the father who donates sperm, the mother who produces the ovum, the mother who provides the womb, and the mother and the father who raise the child...