Word: lethal
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...struck between Karzai and the resistance - and believe it is crucial that the Pakistani military remain close to the clan in order to preserve Islamabad's influence in Afghanistan. That is not a result the U.S. wants. The Americans blame the young Haqqani warlord Sirajuddin for the most lethal attacks, many of them by suicide bombers, on NATO forces around Kabul. U.S. intelligence suspects that the Haqqanis are sheltering dozens of al-Qaeda fighters...
When normal cells are hijacked by cancer cells, the natural substances are similarly triggered to aid the proliferation of the cancer. Just as the Harvard scientists were searching for the transforming factor in the case of the roundworm, the trigger of how normal cells aid cancer cells in becoming lethal tumors is “the unknown everybody is going after right now in cancer research,” Kalluri said...
...Others are not so nonchalant. Last year, Jan Egeland, a U.N. special adviser on conflict resolution, said no place on earth was more deserving of international attention. Climate change, resource conflict and trafficking in drugs, arms and humans were combining to create "one lethal cocktail," he said. Speaking last year, a Western diplomat in Senegal concurred. "It looked like we'd turned the corner in West Africa," he told TIME on condition of anonymity, as per protocol. "Then suddenly it's coup here, coup there and cocaine everywhere. These things start spreading, and everything, everyone's interests, is down...
...Friday’s women’s basketball game, Yale coach Chris Gobrecht’s face was as red as the ‘H’ on the center of the court. The Crimson (13-7, 4-2 Ivy), employing a lethal zone defense, stifled her Bulldogs’ offensive attack all night while creating plenty of offensive opportunities in the paint 94 feet away in a 88-65 win Friday at Lavietes Pavilion...
...Crimson didn’t figure things out fast enough to stop Wright, whose stick would again prove lethal in the extra frame...