Word: failed
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...never realized how truly diverse American society is until now. I walk down crowded streets, and ride in crowded subway trains, and without fail, I am the only non-Japanese person to be seen. People are usually too polite to stare, but I realize how different I must look...
...problem is that the altered viruses do not always seek out the target cells and sometimes insert themselves in the wrong place in the cellular DNA. Then too, once in place, the new genes sometimes fail to express themselves. "There are still a few walls to get over," Anderson concedes. He points out that in the initial trial, viruses used for cystic fibrosis, for example, produced an inflammatory response: "So the trials were halted, and another generation of viral vectors was developed. Now we're going to restart the clinical trials with these new-generation vectors," which he thinks will...
Such surgery, of course, carries the risk of precipitating a stroke or heart attack. In addition, rehabilitation can be long and painful. And though artificial joints are generally durable for 10 years or more, they sometimes fail far earlier--resulting in more surgery, rehabilitation and pain...
...aides. But as far as Clinton is concerned, the campaign machinery is designed to have reporters see--at only slightly closer range--just what the public sees. We duly observe the big, exultant crowds generated by expert advance teams, the Reagan-quality visual backdrops, the sound systems that never fail. Most of us dutifully report the torrent of bite-size initiatives his policy wonks are churning out, from free cell phones for neighborhood-watch groups to a Website for locating deadbeat dads. We come to both admire and resent his newfound discipline: be presidential, be centrist, be practical. The drama...
Women who have had a C-SECTION and then try but fail to deliver the next baby vaginally double their risk of suffering rare complications in childbirth. Among them: ruptured uterus and bowel lacerations...