Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe that biodisasters could occur. In an interview in Science Magazine Sinsheimer cites the possibility that, by endowing lower organisms with the DNA of upper organisms, a "sort of betrayal of state secrets at the molecular level may occur." These new organisms may be endowed with dangerous, possibly lethal characteristics that scientists may not be able to combat...
...thought out but disappointing. The play is one of Shakespeare's most vivid, bloody and craftily psychological works. So was Verdi's operatic treatment when he finally finished revising it 18 years after its 1847 premiėre. Strehler's stylized production is bloodless and static; lethal emotion is indicated by second-rate symbols. Once they seize the throne, Macbeth and his lady trail around in long, heavy robes apparently intended to represent both royalty and their guilty burden. But the onlooker simply worries about whether, in their ceaseless circling, one may trip over the other...
...effect, plainclothesmen and uniformed cops were out in force, and anything that moved was fair game. At one point, a two-man team sighted three black youths on a dark street corner. "What are you doing out now?" demanded one cop as his partner covered the trio with a lethal-looking 12-gauge shotgun. "We were just coming home from skating, man," said one youth. "You're skating," barked the cop, "right to jail." And off they went...
...city dweller's old dream: a cottage far from the lethal crowd, perhaps in a little town where the air is sweet, the living easy and, most important, the streets are clean of muggers, rapists and Saturday night specialists...
...system-and block the formation of antibodies. These are the wondrous proteins designed by nature to seek out invading cells, including transplant tissue, and set the stage for their destruction by the white cells. At best, though, immunosuppression is a blunderbuss approach that also leaves the body unshielded against lethal germs and sometimes apparently cancer...