Word: lethally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Machinist says he sometimes watches television shows such as "Saturday Night Live" or "The Simpsons," or movies such as Lethal Weapon 4 with...
There are problems with the plan. First, 60 of the Serbs' antiaircraft-missile systems are mobile. The best of them, the SA-6s, have recently been upgraded--outfitted with targeting sensors that make them more lethal. Since the SAMs move around on trucks, they are invisible to cruise missiles; fighter-bombers would have to go hunting for them. Second, after the Tomahawks take their shots at the air defenses and command and communications centers in Kosovo, there is to be a pause of a few days to let Milosevic rethink his defiance. If he stands firm, will NATO have...
...crown jewels of American medicine. In the labs, wards and classrooms spread out over the 210-acre medical campus in the North Carolina Piedmont, doctors are pushing hard against the limits of our imagination: tiptoeing electronically through the brain in search of hidden tumors, inventing vaccines that might turn lethal cancers into treatable ones, even breeding animals whose organs could one day be harvested for transplant to make up for the shortfall in human donors. These men and women muscled their way through college and medical school and internships and fellowships, just for the chance to work 100-hour weeks...
...hand in the discovery of one breast cancer-susceptibility gene--known as BRCA1--and who co-discovered a second, BRCA2. Her doctor is Dirk Iglehart, a surgeon who also runs a large tumor biology laboratory. The genetic counselor, Shelly Clark, advises patients on the far-reaching effects of such lethal genes...
...prelude to transplant is brutal, however. The children receive near lethal doses of radiation and chemotherapy that kill the rapidly dividing sick cells. This leaves the patients without any immune system, so the most minor infection could kill them. It also kills the cells lining the gut, making digestion difficult, and those lining the mouth, producing painful sores...