Word: defectives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...executed. Competency demands that a man understand why he was sentenced to die and what will happen when he is executed. Cuneo asked Shaw if he expected to be alive a week after his execution. "Might be here next week," Shaw replied. The psychologist reported, "Shaw's defect clearly renders him unable to understand matters." For the first time, Cuneo testified that a condemned man was not "fit" for capital punishment. Cuneo adds, "Execution doesn't mean anything to Bobby Shaw. He doesn't know what's going to happen...
...competition. He may be worried that Andrew Lack, the smart new NBC News president who came from CBS (where he was Chung's executive producer), will work some sudden magic at NBC. Then there's the chance CBS may lose Ed Bradley, who is being offered millions to defect...
...past, most genes linked to cancer, including a few linked to colon cancer, have been genes that play a role in regulating cell division, in some cases stopping cell growth when DNA is damaged. When such genes are themselves deranged, genetic errors can rapidly accumulate. But the newly discovered defect is not in a damage- control gene. Instead, it seems to be a direct agent of damage that somehow unleashes wave upon wave of DNA mutations over the course of a lifetime. As a result, a single inherited trait leads to "tens of thousands of alterations throughout the genome," Vogelstein...
Vogelstein expects that within three years there will be a better diagnostic test based on the newly discovered genetic defect. The first to benefit from such a blood test will be the 5 million to 10 million Americans who are now considered to be at an increased risk of colon cancer because of a strong family history (usually defined as having three or more relatives with the disease, one of them stricken before age 50). The test could cost $300 a family, according to Vogelstein. About three-fourths of family members will learn that they do not carry the gene...
...inherited defect triggers colon tumors and other cancers...