Word: defect
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...courts have largely sided with the gun companies. Victims of guns that misfire because of a mechanical defect have won some cases, and stores have been held liable for selling guns under wildly unreasonable circumstances. But suits blaming the gun industry when its products are used in crimes or by careless third parties almost always fail. Just this spring a jury cleared a Tennessee company that sold a mail-order MAC-11 assault-pistol kit, the so-called MAC in a sack, used in a sniper killing on the Brooklyn Bridge...
Some 20% of folks may have a genetic flaw that protects them from getting hooked on cigarettes, suggests a new report, and if they start, they smoke less. People with the defect metabolize nicotine more slowly, so it lingers in the body longer. The result: first-time smokers can barely tolerate a cigarette, and habitual smokers need less to satisfy cravings...
...drug, Herceptin--the first to target a genetic defect in breast-cancer cells--has shrunk tumors by turning off the signal that tells cells to divide. In a study, Herceptin increased survival an average of three months for women with advanced cancer. Researchers hope for more dramatic effects if it's given at earlier stages of the disease. Herceptin might get fda approval as early as this fall...
...Paul Quinn-Judge. "His standing has definitely improved as he remained unfazed throughout the verbal hammering he's faced." Yeltsin's baby-faced protégé won easily in today's Duma vote after a secret ballot allowed a number of Communists and other opposition members to quietly defect in order to avoid the dissolution of the legislature and new elections...
...Clinton pledged Thursday to hold the other Khmer Rouge leaders accountable for the 1975-79 genocide -- which, if all goes well, will mean the same kind of international tribunal intended for Pol Pot. More importantly, Cambodian government forces are closing in. ?We will persuade whoever can be persuaded to defect,? said Khieu Kanharith, a spokesman for the Phnom Penh regieme that already includes a number of Khmer Rouge turncoats. ?But Ta Mok, Nuon Chea and Khieu Samphan, as well as Pol Pot, must be brought to trial.? With luck, they?ll be alive...