Word: killingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...routine in Jordan when a girl has gone missing, the same girl will be returned to him soon after as a corpse, even if she proved to be a virgin. "Once the story is out in the community," says Asma Khader, a lawyer and feminist, "they have to kill." Forbidden sex isn't always the issue. Marrying or divorcing against the family's wishes can also provoke murder...
Nineteen-year-old Michael Gillick was diagnosed with neuroblastoma at the age of 3 1/2 months. His cancer--which has spread to his face, bones and heart, filling much of his body cavity--could kill him at any time. Michael is just one of more than 100 children with cancer in or near the small town of Toms River, N.J. (pop. 7,524). It's the kind of disproportionate grouping that epidemiologists call a "cancer cluster." Residents put the blame on local companies that allegedly discharged cancer-causing chemicals into the water supply. Determined to get the situation investigated...
...hopes to pick out specific genes whose malfunctions actually cause disease. It has already begun to work. Using this technique, says Genset chief genomics officer Dr. Daniel Cohen, the company has found two different genes involved in prostate cancer. Cohen points out that the 20 most common diseases, which kill about 80% of the population, are probably linked to some 200 genes out of the body's 100,000. It only makes sense, he says, to look first at those genes...
French Anderson, ever pushing the envelope, last September asked the National Institutes of Health to begin considering gene therapy in the womb for fetuses found to be afflicted with a hemoglobin deficiency that would kill them before birth and for fetuses with ADA deficiency, the "bubble boy" disorder he treated in his pioneering 1990 trial...
Just as a pair of victories would keep the Crimson in the Ivy title race, two losses could kill any chance of an Ancient Eight title...