Word: defection
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...ways of detecting and treating a widespread birth defect...
...elusive payoff. John A. Williams, 56, has written more than a dozen books of fiction and nonfiction without striking a mother lode. He is a good writer with a big theme: being black in America. By now every honest citizen should know that racism is a national birth defect, which, in the absence of a cure, requires ceaseless applications of justice. This cry is implicit in Williams' work, though most readers have tired of hearing it. The result is that the author has gained a reputation as best known for being neglected...
...mixture of comradely good will and testy jealousy. Inevitably he resented the contrast drawn between us by the media. He had been associated with Nixon for too long for the President to tolerate on his part social contacts and attitudes that in my case were treated as a congenital defect. Torn between his prohibited predilections to conciliate and his political survival, Ehrlichman adopted a supercilious manner. Outsiders considered it a mark of arrogance; its real fount was ambivalence...
Tentative, or under "Consideration," stand her times, and those of many other swimmers in the meet, because the AIAW has not yet set definite cutoff marks. The governing body, under seige warfare with the NCAA, is uncertain how many members will defect to its rival before Nationals, and how many swimmers consequently will be available to fill event quotas...
...does the rate of birth defects. A woman is twice as likely to give birth to a defective child at age 40 as she was at 25 and five times as likely after 45. One possible explanation is aging eggs. A human female is born with about 2 million immature eggs, or oöcytes. Between puberty and menopause about 400 of them will mature into fertile eggs, a process that involves halving the number of chromosomes during cell division. According to theory, the older the oöcyte when it undergoes division-and in a 40-year...