Word: dead-end
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...told the future Lord Rayleigh that the scientific reason for the sky's blueness is that God wants it that way. Or if someone did tell him that, we can all be happy that the youth was plucky enough to ignore them. For science, intelligent design is a dead-end idea...
Similar groups have begun to appear around the country. In New York, the Family Life program, co-sponsored by the state and the Children's Aid Society, is attempting to give dead-end kids a sense of self-esteem, says Michael Carrera, its energetic director. Since the program's initiation last February, not one of the 55 participating youngsters has become pregnant or fathered a child...
...MART'S IMAGE SEEMED TO MORPH FROM CHARMING SOUTHERN DISCOUNT STORE TO A RETAIL BULLY FULL OF DEAD-END JOBS. WHY DID THAT HAPPEN...
...relieved to discover that the disease had apparently failed to spread beyond the small family cluster. (Somsak's wife and six-year-old son were both quarantined in a provincial hospital with bird-flu symptoms, and his son has recovered.) The human-to-human transmission "is a nonsustained, inefficient, dead-end street," says Dr. Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's influenza team. By the weekend, scientists at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were still studying the viral samples, trying to determine whether the virus had mutated significantly?or worse, reassorted with a human flu. The latter...
...Alhough Pranee is apparently the first documented case of human-to-human bird-flu transmission, researchers suspect that such dead-end transmissions have occurred in previous outbreaks and simply escaped notice. "It's worrisome on one hand, but on the other hand it's nothing new," says Stohr. "Occasionally it can infect the next person, but then the infection chain stops...