Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...costlier sanctions. But more prisons and longer sentences likely point in only two directions: larger inmate rosters and a higher crime rate. Robert Gangi, executive director of the Correctional Association of New York, warns, "Building more prisons to address crime is like building more graveyards to address a fatal disease...
...Louisiana couple produced a healthy baby even though both parents carry the genetic defect that produces Tay-Sachs disease, which is always fatal. Thanks to new procedures that identify genetic defects in eggs fertilized outside the mother's body, doctors were able to examine fertilized eggs before they developed into embryos. They then transferred a healthy pre-embryo to the mother's uterus...
Unchecked, the core material escaped into the air over the next 10 days, releasing fatal amounts of radiation...
...first known case of human infection with simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), a cousin of AIDS-causing HIV, has been documented in a laboratory worker. No one knows whether the virus, which isn't fatal in monkeys, will be deadly to humans, harmless or somewhere in between...
...Stevens been planning the murders for half a year? Or were the fatal packages originally intended for some other purpose? One person who would doubtless add many questions of her own was, understandably, quiet. Reached by reporters at the house she shared with Stevens, Brenda Chevere excused herself from talking. "I've had a day," she said. "I've lost most of my family...