Word: lethally
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...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...
...saving grace of the movie is the renowned cast and their moving, spirited performances. Danny Glover, who is pretty much only seen in the increasingly silly Lethal Weapon movies these days, delivers an ardent reminder of what a fine actor he really is. His portrayal of Paul D is vivacious, endearing and painfully vulnerable. Kimberly Elise gives a burning, multifaceted performance as Denver. She conveys so much with one facial expression that she is able to counter with relative ease Thandie Newton's grating-at-best turn as Beloved. Oprah Winfrey, who snatched up the rights to Morrison's book...
...would also note, as I have stated before, that almost every instance of serious behavioral misconduct at Harvard (physical violence, destruction of property, etc.) is associated with alcohol. Even when drinking is not to a potentially lethal level, it impairs students' judgment in ways that can have very serious long[-]term consequences for them, since we do not consider it exculpatory when a student states, as an excuse for some misbehavior, `I was drunk at the time...
...campaign, in Maryland, that Bremer, one of America's lethal, boardinghouse nonentities, gunned him down. Wallace campaigned again, in 1976, but as a ghost of himself...