Word: defection
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...Nearsightedness appears to be genetic, and may someday be preventable with drug therapy. The possible culprit: a defect in the gene that determines the shape of the eyeball...
Keys says there is no disagreement about first principles: "Jobs. If we can't run an economy capable of creating jobs, then we will be thrown out. And so will every other government that suffers from that defect." But differences have already cropped up on how job growth is to be achieved. The A.N.C., says Keys, is unable "to perceive what a growing economy could really do." Its leaders tend to "feel they have to take away things from certain sectors in order to give things to other sectors." He insists that if the economy is going to grow...
...family's history, or they may be blinded by pity for the bereft parents. Marybeth Tinning of Schenectady, New York, won only sympathy as, one by one, her nine youngsters died of SIDS and other vague natural causes between 1972 and 1985. Doctors and friends suspected some rare genetic defect was to blame, even though one of the victims was an adopted son. (Tinning was finally convicted in 1986 of murdering her last child.) "We have prejudices about what killers look like," says D.A. Fitzpatrick, "and they don't look like nice middle-class moms from the suburbs who would...
...medical article in Pediatrics. Fitzpatrick first read the paper eight years ago while preparing an infanticide case in order to familiarize himself with possible causes of SIDS. In the report, Dr. Alfred Steinschneider, now president of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Institute in Atlanta, proposed that a genetic defect could cause prolonged apnea, or breaks in breathing during a baby's sleep, and lead to SIDS. He bolstered his thesis with detailed accounts of the death of five babies in one unidentified family. Medical examiner Linda Norton, who passed the paper along to Fitzpatrick, ! offered an intriguing remark: "She said...
...that sticky day in August 1985, Ames had a lot on his mind. Only 10 days earlier, Vitali Yurchenko, a senior Soviet intelligence official, had defected -- or pretended to defect -- to the U.S. Ames had been assigned to meet Yurchenko's plane at Andrews Air Force Base, but after a night of drinking, he'd overslept his alarm and he arrived a few minutes late. Now, after that inauspicious start, Ames was involved in debriefing Yurchenko every day on KGB operations against Western countries, including penetration of U.S. agencies. Ames was also preparing for a transfer from CIA headquarters...