Word: fatale
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Guns and attitudes; like so many American cities, Milwaukee is aching from the frequent and often fatal combination of the two. "It used to be your money or your life," says Sheriff Richard Artison. "Now they'll shoot you anyway." Since 1980 the city's homicide rate has doubled and now stands at more than 150 so far this year, spurred by a deadly convergence of gangs, drugs and ever more sophisticated weaponry. Countywide, juvenile arrests for homicides climbed from six in 1983 to 82 last year. Admissions at Children's Hospital for gunshot wounds rose from...
While Dor Yeshorim has generally been well received within the Orthodox community, its outside reception has been mixed. Some hail the program as an effective attempt to reduce suffering and to prevent the perpetuation of these painful, often fatal, diseases. Others criticize Dor Yeshorim as a Promethean scenario; modern science has taken another step in abrogating the ancient role of God. In either case, Dor Yeshorim does raise several serious questions with implications far beyond the Orthodox Jewish community...
Most people are somewhat comfortable with the idea of testing for Tay-Sachs, a fatal, degenerative neurological condition that strikes young children. However, many question the utility of DNA screening for other conditions like Gaucher's disease. The symptoms of this painful degenerative disease almost never appear before a person's mid-40s, and Gaucher's is treatable. Should the distant prospects of non-fatal disease prevent a marriage between two people who love each other? Inevitably, the more diseases added to the list, the more marriages prevented...
...special precautions. The moral duty of those already afflicted, though, must be clearly articulated: being intimate without prior disclosure is like serving arsenic in a cake. And not informing previous contacts (or not helping public authorities trace them without disclosing your name) leaves the victims, unwittingly, to transmit the fatal disease to uncounted others...
...plain talk: if AIDS were any other disease -- say, hepatitis B or tuberculosis -- we would have no trouble (and indeed we have had none) introducing the necessary preventive measures. Moreover, we should make it clear that doing all you can to prevent the spread of AIDS or any other fatal disease is part and parcel of an unambiguous commandment: Thou shalt not kill...