Word: fatale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...commissioner says he realizes that he will face tensions of another sort when he arrives in Cambridge. The city has endured a rash of violence the past few weeks, including a rape and two stabbings, one of them fatal, in the Harvard vicinity...
That is the theory. In practice, it's more complicated. The reactors must be built of materials that are both lightweight and capable of withstanding extraordinary temperature changes, from several hundred degrees below zero to several thousand degrees above. To reduce the risk of fatal meltdowns, the uranium fuel must be packed in tiny particles coated with several layers of carbon alloy and carefully machined to very close tolerances. And because the fuel gives off "hot" -- meaning radioactive -- by-products, it is inevitable that the escaping gas will pick up some radioactivity...
...researchers examined the death certificates of 987 men and women in Southern California and found that the mean age at death was 75 for right-handed people and 66 for lefties. One reason for this discrepancy may be that left-handed people seem to be more susceptible to fatal accidents (7.9% vs. 1.5%), groping, as they must, through the mirror images of their daily lives...
Investigation into last Thursday's fatal stabbing of Bunting Fellow Mary Joe Frug is continuing, but investigators still have no motive or suspect, a spokesperson for the district attorney's office said yesterday...
...Congress doesn't act now--when its constitutional powers have been abused to the point of ruin--it may never get another chance. The long-abused War Powers Resolution has been dealt a fatal blow by Bush's arrogant disregard of Congress in the Persian Gulf crisis. If Congress doesn't start to take seriously its Constitutional power to declare war, it will effectively lose...