Word: fatales
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...Lebanon. But the killing of more than 100 innocent civilians at Qana (see box) has alienated Israel's Arab minority, who make up some 15% of the population and whose ballots Peres had counted on. If they don't vote for him, Labor officials concede, their defection could prove fatal to Peres' campaign...
Clint Bolick, litigation director for the libertarian Institute for Justice in Washington, predicts court-ordered desegregation schemes will be gone in 10 to 15 years. Their fatal error was in making racial balance a goal, which eventually led to admissions preferences for whites, "turning Brown on its head," says Bolick. "What all this shows is that social engineering doesn't work...
Ebola Reston, by contrast, has never been linked to illness in humans. Still, doctors are closely monitoring everybody who had any contact with the monkeys in Texas. Experts warn that they can't rule out the possibility that Ebola Reston could mutate into a strain that is fatal to humans. Says a spokesman for the cdc: "It would be folly to predict what the virus will...
...traces of the obsessive. Later American parents sometimes have a tendency to practice a retro-projection that amounts to a search for their own lost, sweet, brilliant, childish selves. They indulge in a manic idealization of their young; it is the obverse of child battering but sometimes has equally fatal effects. The idealization too savors of some indirect exhibitionism that, seen in a brutal light, comes just short of amounting to child sacrifice...
...kept thinking, 'Please! Please get some altitude!'" --Tom Johnson, a pilot with 15 years' experience, watching Jessica Dubroff's plane shortly after its fatal takeoff in Cheyenne, Wyoming...