Word: expellable
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...could make it impossible for the antibiotic to stick to its target. It's something like the protect-the-perimete r strategy used by defenders of ramparts on medieval fortresses. In other cases, says Neu, the bacteria develop enzymes capable of destroying the antibiotics and even molecular pumps that expel the drugs from the cell. The most recent example of bacterial resourcefulness came to light only two weeks ago. By deleting a single gene, an English-French research team announced, certain strains of the TB germ have protected themselves from isoniazid, currently the major weapon against this resurgent disease...
...terrorize, displace or, if need be, kill them is part of the arsenals on all sides. The fundamental objective of the war is Serbian "ethnic cleansing" -- practiced by ethnic irregulars armed and supported by the Serbian government of Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade -- of large swaths of Bosnian territory to expel Muslims and Croats so that Serbs may move in. Croats under the harshly nationalist leadership of President Franjo Tudjman have joined in to grab their share of territory, and Bosnian Muslims, fighting at the raw level of their rivals, are likewise guilty of barbarism -- and of inflating horror stories about...
...guerrillas have been waging what amounts to an "ethnic cleansing" campaign since early April. Last week the village of Turalici took its turn. "They encircled the place and cut off communications," says Nijaz Rustemovic, 36, a Muslim engineer who lives in nearby Kladanj. "They went door to door and expelled the people who hadn't already fled. Then they spilled oil all around and lit the village on fire." Other cleansings have reportedly included executions of scores of people. In Croatia, Serbian irregulars continue to expel Croats from areas near the Danube where Serbs predominate, despite the presence...
Though the Serbs make up only a third of the population of Bosnia- Herzegovina , they are, says U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia Warren Zimmermann, "trying to take over two-thirds of the country." In their campaign to carve out a Greater Serbia and expel Croats and Slavic Muslims, the Serbs have created hundreds of thousands of refugees; Serbs have been pushed out by Croats and Muslims in response. U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali said it was the largest uprooting of population "in Europe since the Second World...
...deadline came and went last month, with barely a whimper from Harvard. The military continues to expel homosexuals from its ranks; the University continues to sponsor an off-campus ROTC program...