Word: defectiveness
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...liberalizing the abortion laws-including 49% of the Catholics. According to the National Opinion Research Center, 71% of Americans favor legal abortion if the woman's health is endangered, 56% in rape cases and 55% if there is a strong chance that the baby may have a serious defect. Conversely, 80% are against abortion for unwed girls and 83% against it for mothers who do not want more children-the main seekers of abortion...
...public service born as Henry Cabot Lodge. Here is an authorized biography-an admiring one-of Lodge's distinguished career, including 13 years as a liberal Republican Senator and eleven as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. and Viet Nam. The virtue and the defect of the book is that Lodge is largely seen through contemporary journalistic accounts of his activities, plus his own speeches and writings. The feel of history is well caught, but Lodge the private man is elusive, and critical assessments...
...first report of a human malformation linked with LSD use proved to be inaccurate. The Saturday Evening Post claimed that an Oregon child "had a defect of the intestinal tract and its head was developing grotesquely-one side growing at a much faster rate than the other." In fact, the baby's head and chromosomes are normal, says Dr. Egozcue. There is no reason to believe that his intestinal abnormality is related to his mother's single dose of LSD. But at least four babies of LSD-tripping mothers, now being studied in Buffalo, have broken chromosomes...
...Vietnamese and Viet Cong, showing a healthy Nguyen Van Be holding Hanoi newspaper accounts of his vaunted end, have sent planes over Viet Cong areas broadcasting Be's voice. It was after such a plane passed over him that Be's cousin, Nguyen Va Ba, decided to defect. "I put my shovel down," he says, "and listened to the voice very carefully. I found it to be Be's true voice...
...statute gives, is far too long. "Third, the statute places no termination date on the eavesdrop once the conversation sought is seized. Finally, the statute's procedure, necessarily because its success depends on secrecy, has no requirement for notice as do conventional warrants, nor does it overcome this defect by requiring some showing of special facts...