Word: gratia
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...fact, Fleming was not even the first to describe the antibacterial properties of Penicillium. John Tyndall had done so in 1875 and, likewise, D.A. Gratia in 1925. However, unlike his predecessors, Fleming recognized the importance of his findings. He would later say, "My only merit is that I did not neglect the observation and that I pursued the subject as a bacteriologist." Although he went on to perform additional experiments, he never conducted the one that would have been key: injecting penicillin into infected mice. Fleming's initial work was reported in 1929 in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology...
...seem to have ended the bloodbaths. Last month the Missouri legislature put a concealed-carry referendum on next April's ballot, and lawmakers in Michigan are scheduled to vote on a similar measure soon. "Carrying a gun does not guarantee you won't get hurt," says Suzanna Gratia Hupp, a Texas legislator who crusaded for her state's law, "but it changes the odds." Many Americans will take them...
...monarchy may have been at one time ex dei gratia, but it is now slumming with the rest of them. Ratings, ratings, ratings: Di's up and Charles is down. This week they may well capture our interest, but in a few months they could just as easily be yesterday's amusement--and even more amusing if they pretend to have any moral authority, as a King and Queen should...
...picked up his laminated wallet-size permit from Sheriff Anderson's office in El Paso County: "The police take care of the public, not the individual. This is a great chance for people to defend themselves." One of the most potent advocates in the Texas debate has been Suzanna Gratia, who watched helplessly as a deranged gunman executed 23 people--including her parents--at a cafeteria in the town of Killeen four years ago. At the time, Gratia's own .38-cal. was lying in the trunk of her car because she was obeying the current concealed-weapons...
...other Americans take a lesson from her tragedy? The question harks back to the classic gun-control debate. "CCW permits are not the answer," says Whitmore. "They give you a false sense of security." She argues that the regrets of people like Gratia are outweighed by the regrets of those who had guns but found themselves outdrawn. And certainly Whitmore would be right to distinguish a tinge of the overheated in another of Anderson's satisfied customers, retiree Bob Chadwick. "I won't come downtown much anymore," he says, grabbing an application for his .44-cal. Magnum...