Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...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...
...Livingstone, like others researching in this area, is confident that dyslexia is not a defect, but rather a difference...
...Louisiana couple produced a healthy baby even though both parents carry the genetic defect that produces Tay-Sachs disease, which is always fatal. Thanks to new procedures that identify genetic defects in eggs fertilized outside the mother's body, doctors were able to examine fertilized eggs before they developed into embryos. They then transferred a healthy pre-embryo to the mother's uterus...
...years ago. The disease the team targeted was severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), often called the bubble- boy disease because its most famous victim was encased in a plastic bubble during his short life to protect him from infection. One form of SCID called ADA deficiency is caused by a defect that blocks production of adenosine deaminase, a key enzyme; without it, important immune-system blood cells are immobilized...