Word: defective
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...Africa, India, Southeast Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Symonds, who served jail time for corruption but has never been charged with espionage, told Time his missions included obtaining false identities and acting as a "frightener" or standover man who would brutalize agents working deep undercover who had tried to defect to the West. In Australia, the interest was in "people who were working there as illegals (Soviet spies) and who had been set up in a small hotel or business and had done a runner." Symonds also says he specialized in providing background stories for spies. Mention the alleged mole...
...engaged in a debate that takes place throughout the country, where people still discuss whether homosexuality is a choice that might be un-made, whether “gay” is nothing more than a code word for godless promiscuity or whether it might be a natural defect that must be borne but not celebrated by the individual unlucky enough to be afflicted with...
...March of Dimes, whose mission is to improve babies' health by preventing birth defects, teamed up with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in the U.S. to deliver a public-health message: women of childbearing age should take 400 micrograms of folic acid daily. It's a simple act of preventive medicine that cuts the risk of neural-tube defects like spina bifida in developing fetuses by more than 50%. Apparently the message stuck. A March of Dimes poll designed to gauge awareness of the supplement's benefits found that while only half of American women ages...
Unfortunately, there's no cure for celiac disease, which seems to be caused by a genetic defect. But there is a remedy that's 100% effective: stay away from gluten. That isn't as easy as it sounds. Breads and cereals are obvious sources of the offending protein, but it's also used--and not always labeled--as an additive in cold cuts, soups, soy sauce, malt vinegar and even jelly beans...
...CONVICTED. TAKAYUKI NOGUCHI, 32, Japanese activist; of helping two North Koreans to flee their country via China; in China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. A district court sentenced Noguchi to eight months in prison, the most severe punishment China has handed down to a Japanese for helping North Koreans defect...