Word: defectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...victim, who was later identified as Chang Shi-jung, 31, had been serving as an agricultural adviser with the Chinese embassy in Algeria. He had reportedly informed the French embassy in Algiers that he wanted to defect, and the Chinese had learned of his plans. When French officials at Orly told the Chinese diplomats that Chang was too indisposed to travel, they became agitated and shouted "Bullies!" and "Fascists!" at the police. While the Pakistani plane took off without any of the Chinese aboard, both sides swiftly called up reinforcements. Fifty tough riot troopers of the C.R.S. (Compagnies...
Nature itself takes care of the worst genetic mistakes. One out of every 130 conceptions ends before the mother even realizes she is pregnant because the defective zygote, or fertilized egg, never attaches itself to the wall of the uterus. Fully 25% of all conceptions fail to reach an age at which they can survive outside the womb, and of these, at least a third have identifiable chromosomal abnormalities. Still, as many as five out of every 100 babies born have some genetic defect, and Nobel-Prizewinning Geneticist Joshua Lederberg believes the proportion would be even higher were...
...Ramsey and others, genetic surgery?repairing, replacing or suppressing a "sick" gene?could be profoundly moral. Depending on the defect, genetic surgery before or after birth could prevent abnormality, and also insure that it was not passed on. Moral Theologian Bernard Häring of Rome's Accademia Alfonsiana applauds basic remedial intervention as "corrective foresight...
Although Epps expressed great concern over the inequities between the Houses, he said that the original plan had had the defect of possibly forcing students to move, while the final plan maximized freedom of choice...
...monogenic changes in humansprove feasible, certain hereditary diseases may be cured if they result from a single defective gene. Such a defect may mean the cell falls to produce a certain essential protein such as insulin...