Word: lethally
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...religiously motivated militants like Khaled, that battle may be heating up. More than a month has passed since U.S. forces unearthed Saddam, but the threats facing American forces in Iraq are no less lethal with him in captivity. According to some U.S. and Iraqi officials, that is in part because of the rising influence and activity of Islamic extremists. These militants are assuming a leadership role in the anti-American insurgency as the ranks of Iraqis loyal to the secular Baathist regime dwindle...
CRIMES OF PASSION Rough sex for many species can range from brutal love bites to lethal lust. Male dung flies, mountain sheep and some frogs, in their zeal to procreate, will swarm, harass and harm females, sometimes fatally. For Hawaiian monk seals, where males outnumber females 3 to 1, mating violence is so serious that biologists are worried that the species may be endangered...
...threat of bioterrorism jump-started dormant plans to create reliable vaccines against some of the world's deadliest agents. In October U.S.-government scientists began their first human trial of an experimental vaccine against Ebola, a lethal African virus that triggers severe internal bleeding and kills up to 90% of its victims. Experts have long feared that Ebola could be turned into a devastating bioweapon. Meanwhile, at Harvard, researchers created an anthrax vaccine that, unlike older vaccines, targets both the toxins created by the bacterium and the bug itself...
...errant e-mails, it now seems, were not due to careless senders but to a clever virus known as Bugbear which can cause confidential e-mails—and lethal attachments—to be dispersed around campus...
Wielgus’s praise of Morrison as a lethal threat is merited; her numbers over the season—17.1 points, 8.6 rebounds and a league-leading 3.5 blocks per game—lead the team and are among the league’s best...