Word: fractionals
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...received just one gene from either parent would inevitably get the disease. One of the most tragic examples involved a 4,000-member Colombian family that had been haunted for generations by Alzheimer's. Yet such cases, researchers were only too well aware, accounted for merely a small fraction of all cases of Alzheimer's disease. Still other genes, they reasoned, must be involved in the great majority of cases--those in which dementia does not strike until one's seventh, eighth or ninth decade of life...
...Still's group now provides "assault insurance" for its 19,000 members. And 14 states have passed laws toughening penalties for violence against officials. Hundreds of leagues also offer parental sportsmanship classes, though only a fraction of those are mandatory. In the wake of Michael Costin's death, that may soon change...
...display. You can't make calls with the T900, but you can send and receive e-mail. You can also get daily news, sports, weather and entertainment updates. Even better, it costs half as much as the V phone, and monthly fees from PageNet start at $10--a fraction of what you'd pay for a cell phone...
...Unemployment fell back to 4.0 percent from May's 4.1 percent. As far as the market is concerned, that's bad, but not very. More dramatically, the economy created only 11,000 non-farm jobs - a fraction of the 260,000 expected by analysts - and that's very good. But the pool of available labor continued to shrink, by some 3 percent, and that's not so good for wage and inflationary pressures...
There is a scene in the movie of "The English Patient" in which the party is riding across the dunes of the Egyptian desert. All is laughter and good humor until, in the fraction of an instant, a flicker of inattention, the car's wheels turn wrong, the vehicle flips over, and the characters' universe is suddenly, irreversibly changed - all in that laughter-to-disaster instant...