Word: fatales
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...even Bush's defenders could explain away the fatal flaw in the U.S.'s post-9/11 strategy. In his State of the Union address in January 2002, less than five months after the terrorists had struck, Bush directed his fire against what he called an "axis of evil"--Iran, Iraq and North Korea--which he accused of sponsoring terrorism and "seeking weapons of mass destruction." Yet not one of those countries had been directly implicated in the 9/11 attacks...
...land the guy of your dreams in the first few dates, basically. So many girls make fatal mistakes very, very early on in the dating process...
...melanin in black and brown skin offers only partial protection from UV rays, not unlike a base tan. Although melanoma is far more common among whites, it is more likely to be fatal among blacks and Hispanics because the cancer develops undetected longer. One of the most famous people to die from melanoma: Bob Marley...
...analogy to a teenager's fatal attraction to smoking has not been lost on the medical community. Doctors point out new evidence that tanning, whether indoor or out, may be somewhat addictive. Small-scale studies by researchers at North Carolina's Wake Forest University indicate that tanning may trigger endorphins, which could be why sunbathing feels so relaxing and why frequent tanners experience withdrawal-like symptoms if they don't get their regular fix. So public-health officials and consumer advocates are taking lessons from the antismoking movement. Not only are they pushing for laws to curb young people...
...hard-boiled detective yarn is spun out in a modern high school and peopled mostly by teenagers. It's that the joke is not a joke at all but a pertinent metaphor for that vulnerable time of life when every street looks mean, every love affair could be fatal. Written in 1997, shot in 2003 (for less than $500,000) and finally released early this year, Brick is so handsomely made, so insolently assured, that you have to wonder what took the moneymen so long to realize that Johnson had talent. May it not be another nine years before...