Word: defection
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...study found that the mutant mice could also transmit the disease to other mice through feces, suggesting the genetic defect encourages the growth of aggressively infectious bacteria...
...senators on why it's important to wait for Petraeus's first report on the strategy due in September. While most Republicans support the new strategy - which has resulted in the bloodiest few months since the end of "major hostilities" in 2003 - some in recent weeks have begun to defect, calling for a rethinking, or even redeployment, of U.S. troops in Iraq...
...It’s no surprise that more Harvard undergraduates defect from the sciences than the other way around. The temptations are strong and many: fewer hours in lab, easier Core courses, a more flexible homework schedule, and Thursday nights free from problem sets. Science concentrators routinely spend more than 15 hours per week in class and lab, while our humanities and social sciences counterparts rarely crack that number...
...Internet for suitable mates, coming up with an architect called Jason (Tom Everett Scott), who is a little bit too tightly wound. She conducts her interviews with dating prospects in a restaurant under the amused eye of Johnny, the restaurant's guitar player (Gabriele Macht). His only visible defect is a tattoo on his hand. Otherwise, he is the modern beau ideal - soft-spoken, tolerant, not too ambitious , with (we soon learn) plenty of time for single-parenting his somewhat noxious child. To Daphne he is, of course, a loser, and she's appalled when he seeks out her daughter...
...Were you ever tempted to defect to the West during communism? Yes, I was tempted to leave, but I couldn't. The first opportunity arose in 1956 [during the revolution]. I was 27 at the time. I had a lot of big ideas for a novel. I knew I wanted to write eventually, and I knew that at 27 it was too late to learn to write in another language. This consideration decided my fate. Like the old Hungarian joke, instead of going abroad, I decided to do something more adventurous: I stayed at home...