Word: galle
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...their sex lives in reader-survey cards. Even the famous Kinsey studies - which caused such a scandal in the late 1940s and early '50s by reporting that half of American men had extramarital affairs - were deeply flawed. Although Alfred Kinsey was a biologist by training (his expertise was the gall wasp), he compromised science and took his human subjects where he could find them: in boardinghouses, college fraternities, prisons and mental wards. For 14 years he collared hitchhikers who passed through town and quizzed them mercilessly. It was hardly a random cross section...
...their enormous wages, they then have the gall to charge kids $15 for an autograph...
...hard to come by. Even when a cause-and-effect relationship is established, as in major industrial accidents, the data are confusing. In the years after a large dioxin release in 1976 in Seveso, Italy, for example, the incidence of leukemias, lymphomas and soft-tissue cancers in men and gall-bladder and bile- duct cancers in women rose -- but breast and endometrial cancers in women actually went down. Possible reason: dioxin may sometimes interfere with the hormone system in beneficial ways...
...practicer of genocide and treachery. It's true that Arafat has been a terrorist, murderer, and sly politician in his many years as one of Israel's chief adversaries. Seeing his face plastered all over television and on placards on what used to be Israeli soil must profoundly gall Israelis old enough to remember the atrocities of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). The problem is that the Israelis must tolerate Arafat more than ever before, because he is absolutely necessary to the continuance of peace...
...apart" a new prophet from among themselves. If tradition is a guide, they will select the chief of the council as Benson's successor and the Mormon Church's 14th president -- in this case Howard Hunter. At 86, Hunter, who had open-heart surgery eight years ago and a gall- bladder operation last year, will be the first head of the Mormon Church born in the 20th century...