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...stranger episode occurred when some members of the Afghanistan wrestling team were reported to be eager to defect. After British Television Correspondent Martin Lewis aired a story about the possible defections, all 18 members of the team, edgy and anxious, appeared at a press conference to issue a collective denial. Lewis disputed the claim, even pointing out one athlete who allegedly approached him -a journalistic lapse that could have serious consequences for the unfortunate Afghan...
...NHTSA said it had received 23,000 complaints, which included 98 deaths. Ford protested that transmission failures occur no more often in its cars than those of other manufacturers, and that it had not been able to spot any design defect...
Still, a graver defect alienates us from the story at times. Hazzard suffers a cultural manneredness that sometimes overwhelms the pleasure we take in the novel's intelligent style. Occasionally we detect pretentiousness, a conscious literacy, an assumed intellectual and artistic sophistication. Allusions to literature, paintings, sculptures, mythology, and the great, exotic places of the world abound, and while we enjoy this armchair journey, Hazzard cannot always assimilate it into the flow; it becomes unfortunate, irksome baggage. She establishes Caro Bell, the Australian heroine, as a charming and sensitive woman, but Caro's literary cultivation seems incongruously elevated from what...
...glad to land a new account; she gnawingly wants to settle an old account. Their reminiscences grow tender as they conjure up growing children and the death of a toddler son. In a sudden access of intimacy, past desire becomes present lovemaking - yet the play's defect is that Emily and Ralph seem to be separating simply because they have run out of things...
...unborn baby healthy, or does a defect destine it to an early death or a life of debilitating illness? In many cases the answers to these worrisome questions can be found in laboratory analysis of a small sample of the amniotic fluid drawn from the sac surrounding the baby in the womb. Using amniocentesis, as the technique is called, doctors can accurately predict serious disorders like Down's syndrome (mongolism) and Gaucher's disease (a metabolic disorder); faced with a grim certainty, prospective parents can opt for abortion. But amniocentesis has its limitations; it cannot foretell all defects...