Word: fatales
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Equally lethal to some are insect bites, which cause a fatal allergic reaction in some 40 Americans each year. As many as 20% of people in the U.S. have a severe local response to bites from yellow jackets, hornets, honeybees, wasps and fire ants. An arm swollen to twice its normal size is not unusual. Of the 2 million annually whose reactions to stings spread throughout the body, a few hundred thousand will break out in hives and suffer shortness of breath. Yet, according to the estimate of Dr. Martin Valentine, an allergist at Johns Hopkins, half of those people...
...protruding proboscis and a splash of orange at the edge of its wings, strikes at night, quietly feasting on the blood of the slumbering victim. Most involuntary donors awaken the next morning itching from what seems to be a mosquito bite. But some immediately develop alarming and occasionally fatal allergic symptoms. Dr. Jacob Pinnas of the University of Arizona suggests that kissing- bug deaths may be underestimated. Some people who die in their sleep and have their death attributed to other causes, he says, may be victims of the not-so-amorous insect...
...long ago, Bolden's asthma might have kept her from competing or even coaching. But asthma specialists have learned so much in the past few years that they now believe they can keep most potentially fatal attacks at bay. They have found that allergies play a dual role in causing asthma to develop in the first place as well as in triggering individual episodes of wheezing. By studying families in which asthma appears to be inherited, scientists hope one day to discover the genes that predispose people to develop it. And by controlling the underlying irritation and inflammation...
...drawn to each other's worldly wise grace and the hint of hidden wounds. They are attracted by the fear of what they might find. And when they don their business suits, as Bat and Cat, the animal comes out. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde. Hansel and Grendel. Fatal Attraction meets Beauty and the Beast...
...Eisenhower himself -- were afraid to defy McCarthy in his reckless early days; we neglect the reason -- the outpouring of popular support for him. His continued attack on Eisenhower's Republican Administration showed that McCarthy too was not a mere partisan. He was outside the system, able to see its fatal weakness -- so the system, through the press, was trying to destroy him. Many had called for McCarthy to run for President, and he tried to revive their efforts as the Senate considered censuring...