Word: fatales
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...will now be able to save lives by developing a diagnostic test for the gene. Perhaps 1 million Americans carry it; if tested, they would be advised to have frequent colon exams. If tumors are discovered early enough, they can often be removed before the cancer spreads and becomes fatal. "This seems likely to be the first DNA test that will find its way into general clinical practice," predicts Dr. Francis Collins, who heads the Human Genome Project that is mapping all 23 pairs of human chromosomes...
That led Escobar to two fatal mistakes. First, he called a Medellin radio station to complain about the "lack of solidarity by the German government." On Thursday, he dared to phone his family at Room 2908 in the Residencias Tequendama to say, "I'm fine," and advise them to "stay in Bogota for the time being." His wife, Maria Victoria Henao de Escobar, wished him a happy birthday and urged him to be careful. Within 90 minutes the calls had been traced through a scanning operation set up outside Medellin with U.S.-donated equipment. The high-tech equipment pinpointed...
...danger seems to have receded for the moment. The death rate has dropped from 60% of victims to 35%, and only three cases were reported in the Four Corners region in the past month, none of them fatal. Increased public awareness and a drop in the deer-mouse population may have helped stem the spread of the disease. But researchers fear that cold weather will cause mice to seek shelter inside houses, exposing people once again. So a major multilingual public-information campaign, set in motion in the spring, will continue. And in January Army scientists will begin testing...
Instead, the novel's bad "guy"--and perhaps the characters' liberator--is a wonderfully sinister, manipulative creature named Zenia. Zenia, however, resists sexist categorizations in her own way: while seemingly a femme fatal, she cannot be simply, reductively seductive. Instead she remains the evil enigma. Nor is she ultimately fatal to any one of her "brides," although she is to her bridegrooms. Terrible as it may be, Zenia makes the necessary, awful decisions that none of her female victims would have made for themselves, and always for her own profit...
Many of the first immigrants from the British Isles were unwilling voyagers. Long before Australia became the fatal shore for millions of convicts, North America was London's principal penal colony. Others came to the New World as indentured servants, bound into service to pay the cost of their passage for specified terms -- usually three to seven years -- before being set free. During the 17th century, for example, 75% of Virginia's colonists arrived as servants, some of whom had been kidnapped by unscrupulous "recruiters...