Word: defenselessness
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...form of bore holes drilled through shelly organisms that resemble stacks of miniature ice-cream cones. Seilacher, among others, speculates that the appearance of protective shells and hard, sharp parts in the late Precambrian signaled the start of a biological arms race that did in the poor, defenseless vendobionts...
...still pay off. This week researchers led by Dr. Donald Kohn at Children's Hospital in Los Angeles will publish a report in Nature Medicine showing progress in using gene therapy to treat babies born with a disorder called adenosine deaminase deficiency. Three infants whose hereditary disorder leaves them defenseless against microbial attacks were given healthy genes using blood from their umbilical cords. Because the doctors were able to insert the good genes into the babies before their other immune defenses had fully formed, their bodies did not reject the material as foreign. Doctors do not claim to have cured...
WHAT IS THE POINT OF HAVING THE DEATH penalty if it is never used in brutal cases like Smith's? Her two defenseless, innocent, loving children died at the hand of their manipulative mother. Not only did Smith lie to Union, South Carolina, the black community and the world, but she is also alive. If all those who suffered sexual molestation reacted the way Smith did, we would have an epidemic of infant murders on our hands ANDRE DUGUAY Raleigh, North Carolina...
...Ambassador to the United Nations Madeleine Albright showed classified spy-satellite photos to the Security Council that she said made a "compelling case that there were wide-scale atrocities committed in the area against defenseless civilians." The photos showed large patches of freshly dug earth near Srebrenica--believed to be mass graves--that had not been there earlier. Six thousand men and boys are still missing after the Serb capture of the "safe areas" of Srebrenica and Zepa in Bosnia...
Republicans are only willing to wield the budget axe against largely defenseless constituencies, such as children, the poor and minorities. Labor Secretary Robert Reich has identified $114 billion in Federal spending and subsidies that qualify as corporate welfare, yet Republicans focus on reducing entitlement spending. An analysis of tax breaks granted to major corporations provides further evidence that the Federal Government's worst sin is not bankrolling a welfare state for the poor. Rather, as M.I.T. Professor Noam Chomsky points out, the Federal Government maintains a "nanny state" for the rich--providing public subsidies to fund private profits throughout...