Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...plot in brief: The brilliant middle-aged Dr. Hallet, accompanied by the young, but also very brilliant, protege, are in Indonesia, or the like, finding a cure for the fatal tropical disease. When Hallet thinks he has found it, he prepares to infect himself with the desease, to try out his proposed innoculation. But the young, impetuous (and either stupid or suicidal) assistant preempts his mentor by infecting himself...
EVEN LESS PREDICTABLE are the implications of suspended animation. Although the art of cryogenic freezing is still crude, there are some reports of whole human bodies being preserved in the hopes of revival when a cure is found for a currently fatal disease. But current laws demand that the preserved patient be thoroughly dead before preservation and current methods of freezing cause so much cell damage that the process along is probably fatal...
...Pontiac the problem is especially acute. Two years ago, police began a crackdown on such Chicago gang "nations" as the Black P. Stones, Black Disciples and Vice Lords. Today, there are probably as many members inside Pontiac as on the streets. After the fatal rumble, most prisoners were kept "on deadlock"−that is, in their cells all day as well as all night. Only this month were the final 200 inmates released from deadlock. With the return to comparative calm, TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce was admitted to Pontiac and talked with inmate leaders about the killings and what might...
...cosmonauts lived in Salyut 1 for almost 24 days-longer than anyone had previously spent in space. But the three crewmen were killed on their way back to earth; the hatch of their Soyuz spacecraft leaked-perhaps jolted by the retrorocket firing prior to re-entry-resulting in a fatal loss of oxygen. Since then Soviet engineers have redesigned the hatch to prevent a recurrence of the tragedy. As an added precaution, the cosmonauts will also wear their pressure suits on the return flight, something the earlier crew had not done...
Dioxin has caused birth defects and death in animals, and Meselson said that there have been scattered reports in South Vietnam of fatal herbicide poisoning. In addition, the five scientists found that in some areas in South Vietnam, after herbicide spraying, the rate of still births doubled...