Word: forme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...really have to accentuate the times that we come back form a deficit and today was one of those days when we kept battling and battling," Stone said. "We're coming along and on any given day we just have to believe that we can win and we'll be a lot better...
...forced his defense team to abandon plans to call mental health experts to testify during the guilt-or-innocence phase of the trial, according to court papers filed late Monday. The move means that reams of pre-trial documents asserting that the Unabomber suspect is schizophrenic, and unable to form the intent to kill anyone, have been set aside...
That is what makes the latest two cases--one of which has been confirmed to be the same disease--so important. If the virus has reconfigured itself into a form that can be passed from person to person, without an animal intermediary, and if that altered virus is highly contagious, Hong Kong's tiny outbreak could grow into a global pandemic. It is a long shot, but influenza viruses have performed such feats in the past, usually by trading key genes with other influenza viruses. These mix-and-match sessions seem to happen most often in pigs but can also...
...easy. Influenza vaccines are usually grown in a chicken-egg medium, and H5N1 virus kills chicken eggs. "We've never been faced with this situation," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Even if scientists succeed in genetically engineering a form of the virus that does not kill the eggs, says Fauci, it will still take another six months to develop, test and produce a viable vaccine. By that time, we may already know whether H5N1 has triggered one of those global epidemics that make the history books, or has snuffed itself...
...most rewarding events in TIME's calendar is the selection of our Man of the Year. We begin each January wondering who will capture our imagination. By Labor Day our staff members begin submitting nominations. Then the arguing starts, in the form of extended, mostly civilized debates over the relative merits of a lengthy list of individuals, each of whose accomplishments or notoriety demanded our attention...