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...different method two distinct strains of fruit flies have been obtained at Iowa State College, one with 100% male offspring, the other 100% female. The key is a lethal gene-lethal in that it prevents the embryo of the unwanted sex from reaching maturity. When this gene is combined with the chromosome that determines sex, one sex or the other is eliminated...
...late 1942, the Congress reported, 2,000,000 had been massacred. Vernichtungskolonnen (extermination squads) rounded them up and killed them with machine guns, lethal gas, high-voltage electricity and hunger. Almost all were stripped before they died; their clothes were needed by the Nazis. A typical massacre: "In the town of Otwock two companies of German soldiers were dispatched from Warsaw with the assignment of slaughtering every Jewish man, woman and child. The massacre started at midnight and lasted eight hours. The dead were later collected and buried...
...slight case of murder, with the Crimson hockey squad on the lethal end of the deal and Boston University's sextet in the corpse's role, should be perpetrated this evening at 8:15 o'clock at the Boston Skating Club, when the two teams square off in a return engagement...
...enemy as wholeheartedly if he knows his own next step may be his eternal undoing. From Russia last fortnight came reports that Germans had contrived the most ingenious antipersonnel mine yet: a small mine which, when tripped, blasts a larger mine into the air, where it explodes and scatters lethal fragments 100 yards...
...have learned through the years, and they cannot be by-passed." Most of these are things not to do-the best way to handle a wound is as little as possible, to let nature heal it. Time was when a surgeon's unnecessary probings and meddlings were more lethal to soldiers than swordthrust or gunshot...