Word: misshapen
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...show promise as a medication for nausea, which is why it was given to pregnant women in the 1960s to curb morning sickness. But it also caused terrible deformities in their babies. By the time thalidomide was banned in 1962, it had been blamed for severe handicaps - severely misshapen limbs, organ defects - in more than 5,000 children. Today researchers are investigating the interactions that caused those deformities to discover whether the drug can be safely harnessed to provide a new weapon in the war against cancer...
...untrained eye, the misshapen lump of lead looks utterly worthless. But to the examiners in the windowless lab of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Rockville, Md., this is pure gold: a fragment of the slug that could link the latest victim of the sniper rampage to the ones who came before. Like the other bullets, this one is carefully carried into the lab and hand-delivered to Walter Dandridge, 50, the principal examiner in the case. Using a bit of sticky wax, he attaches the crumpled slug to a slender rod suspended under his Leica comparison microscope...
British historian Thomas Pakenham is best known for his books about colonial Africa, but his real passion is trees. Huge trees. Majestic trees. Misshapen trees. Historic trees. Trees, as he puts it, with "noble brows and strong personalities" that are impossible to ignore...
...breasts. That's five times the number a decade ago. And 80,000 had implants after mastectomies. What could be worrisome about a sac of salt water? Plenty, according to the FDA hearings: more than 40% of women with saline implants return to the operating room because of pain, misshapen breasts or other complications. If the implants are removed, the skin may never be the same. Should a saline implant rupture, it deflates like a popped balloon, leaving a woman asymmetrical. Finally, all implants make mammograms more difficult to read...
...studies arrived at the dimly lit Adams House Conservatory, they found only a dark, rectangular wood table instead of a more metaphorically satisfying round setting. The table may have been narrow, but the discussion was broad. Each of the 10 people that crowded around the table’s misshapen edges came from a different point on the political spectrum. Ross Douthat, the stately editor of the Harvard Salient, sat straight and tall on one end of the table, while Gerard McGeary, the clean-cut Campus Outreach Director of the Harvard College Democrats, manned the other end. Sujean Lee?...