Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fertilize them in a test tube with her husband's sperm. When the fertilized eggs have grown to the 32- or 64-cell stage, the doctors will flick off a few cells from each and analyze their DNA. When they find an egg carrying a gene without the fatal defect, they will implant it in the uterus and allow the fetus to grow to term, free from the threat of Huntington's disease...
...malignancies and can often give an indication of cancer where none exists. Furthermore, prostate cancers are not all the same; many grow so slowly that they do not need to be treated at all. A man could easily die of something else before his prostate condition proved fatal. If millions of men 50 and older take the blood test, some doctors fear that a great deal of unnecessary treatment will take place...
...plan of government. In South Africa, though, the groups trying to write a constitution have never done anything cooperatively, let alone fought a successful war for independence. History for them is a negative force to be overcome if a situation already critical is not to become one that proves fatal for multi-racial democracy in South Africa...
...cholera picked up in Ecuador that was impervious to a variety of antibiotics. Penicillin- resistant strains of gonorrhea, originally noted in Africa around 1976, have cropped up in the Philippines, Thailand and the Washington Heights section of New York City. Public health officials are particularly concerned about potentially fatal forms of dysentery in Central and South America that are resistant to half a dozen drugs...
...problem shared by Single White Female and Raising Cain, two new evil- twin horror movies, is that the characters in them apparently haven't seen any movies. Just by having caught Fatal Attraction, Allie Jones (Bridget Fonda) in Single White Female could have avoided a lot of the grief she suffers at the hands of her roommate-from-hell Hedy (Jennifer Jason Leigh). If Hedy's possessive rages hadn't given Allie a hint, the dead pet would have. And in Raising Cain, none of the cops has seen Psycho. Otherwise they might have been suspicious of that tall creature...