Word: distinguishable
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...course, we shouldn’t wish for anthrax. Inhalation anthrax is a brutal disease, killing victims who do not distinguish their flu-like symptoms from the common flu in time to take the life-saving antibiotics. Even the most vainglorious of us cannot really want their fame confirmed by death. Neither do we need an anthrax infection to confirm our solidarity with victims of terrorism. If the joke about being infected by anthrax lingers, as it seems likely to do well into cold season, it shouldn’t be repeated as it is now, in tones revealing equal...
...York City's Mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, advised New Yorkers last week to get a flu shot. After all, 20,000 Americans each year die of influenza. And this year in particular, the mayor suggested, getting a flu shot might be an especially good idea, since it could help doctors distinguish between flu and the deadly inhalational form of anthrax. How? Both anthrax and flu exhibit strikingly similar symptoms--fever, chills and muscle aches--in the early days of the infection. Physicians would be quick to suspect anthrax in anyone who was vaccinated against flu and still developed fever and chills...
...most helpful leads in the Sept. 11 case will come not from those detained in the U.S. but from Germany, where Atta and other terrorists lived and the seeds of the hijackings were probably planted. Still, agents hope those detained here can help them identify patterns that will distinguish members of sleeper cells from innocent bystanders. And there's always a chance that a detainee who appears innocuous may turn out to be hiding something. "Understandably, nobody wants to be responsible for releasing the wrong person," says Cheryl Little, executive director of the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center. "Even though...
That many in the rock press and on commercial radio have failed to distinguish between Incubus and the hybridists irritates Einziger ("There is no rap in our metal," he says, bewildered. "There's barely any metal in our metal.") But at this particular moment in pop music, the confusion is opportune. The record industry, like every other business, is struggling to move product in a post-disaster world. Incubus, which released its fifth album, Morning View (Epic), on Oct. 23, has a patina of metal hardness that attracts teen boys; Boyd, recently named one of "The Hottest Guys in Music...
...tried to distinguish herself by moving herself to the farther left,” Cambridge political pundit Glenn S. Koocher ’71 says...