Word: fatale
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...response devised in the 1960s remains NATO's official doctrine. It contemplates a defense of Europe that begins with conventional weapons and then goes up the ladder of nuclear escalation?until it reaches whatever level is necessary to halt Soviet aggression. In today's circumstances this doctrine has a fatal weakness: neither existing nor projected NATO conventional ground forces are adequate to repel a major Soviet
David's case was unprecedented: no other human being had lived so long without a functioning immune system, a defect that can turn even the common cold into a fatal disease. David (the family always insisted on anonymity) owed his survival to doctors who had anticipated the condition before his birth because an older brother had died of immunodeficiency. Inside a series of sterile "bubbles," David progressed from a baby in a crib to an A student who attended school by telephone; his food was sterilized and slipped in through air locks. Only briefly, in 1977, was he able...
...sterile world, crawling through an air lock into his mother's waiting arms. But that brief reunion was clouded by worry: a persistent fever, diarrhea and vomiting had made it necessary for doctors to treat him outside the bubble. The symptoms, doctors feared, were signs of the often fatal graft vs. host disease, which occurs when cells from donated marrow attack the recipient's body. During the next 15 days, David developed severe ulceration of his digestive tract and a dangerous accumulation of fluid in his lungs and around his heart. The exhausted child finally died of cardiac...
Scientists working in the labs have recently complained that construction workers have not observed safety precautions in removing asbestos, a common insulating material that has been linked to cancer and other fatal diseases...
...alone is Molecular Genetics (1983 revenues: $6.9 million). Founded by two University of Minnesota professors five years ago, it has limited entangling alliances by searching for products it can develop by itself. In December it introduced in the U.S. a treatment for scours, an often fatal diarrheal infection in newborn calves. Some 25,000 doses of the substance have already been ordered, and the firm expects that it will generate sales of more than $1 million during the first three months of 1984. Says Company President and Co-Founder Franklin Pass: "This could be the second largest medicine...