Word: lethal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Soundest of all slept the federal government, as the president strummed a guitar in California, and took until yesterday to admit any degree of responsibility for its failures. Those days of lethal inaction beg the question: have we not learned anything since that lucid September morning...
...china. She set them on the slab of their house while she walked to my house to get a drink of water. When she returned looters had gotten them. Granted, my rifle was old, rusty and useless if a looter got too close, but from a distance I appeared lethal. A group of National Guardsmen tried to talk it away from me late last week, and I told them they could have it when they could pry it from my cold, dead hands. Strange how a storm changes...
Bird flu had Europe aflutter last week. The lethal , H5N1 ,mavian flu virus, which has killed 57 of the 112 people it's infected in Asia since the end of 2003 and caused the death or destruction of 150 million poultry there, was found in flocks in Russia and Kazakhstan. Then Finnish authorities said another strain of the virus may have killed a seagull in a northern coastal town. The discoveries fanned fears that it could travel west and infect the European Union's estimated ?22-billion-a-year egg-and-poultry industry, or mutate into a strain that leaps...
...reason tanning is so seductive, according to dermatologist Richard Wagner, an author of the study, is that it gives many people an improved body image, despite the fact that they are placing themselves at high risk for skin cancer, including often lethal melanoma. There may be a physical side to the addiction too. Sunlight interacts with the skin to produce endorphins, natural opiates that send the brain a message of well-being...
...intelligence document obtained by TIME, al-Sheibani heads a network of insurgents created by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps with the express purpose of committing violence against U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. Over the past eight months, his group has introduced a new breed of roadside bomb more lethal than any seen before; based on a design from the Iranian-backed Lebanese militia Hizballah, the weapon employs "shaped" explosive charges that can punch through a battle tank's armor like a fist through the wall. According to the document, the U.S. believes al-Sheibani's team consists...