Word: mistakenness
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...report in the New England Journal of Medicine says the culprit may be cow's milk, and the process a bizarre case of mistaken identity. Doctors at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto found that the diabetics had a much higher than normal level of antibodies to a protein in cow's milk called bovine serum albumin; their bodies have targeted the protein as an invader to be destroyed. By a terrible coincidence, a section of this milk protein is almost identical to a protein on the surface of insulin-producing cells. When these people are sensitized to milk...
...chosen for the 4 X 100 m-U.S. relay team. But he's only guaranteed a chance to compete in the long jump, and is not assured a medal there. Still he has stuck to his usual training regimen, and the preternatural Lewis aplomb, which so many have mistaken for ice water, may serve him one final time. "Experience does mean a lot," he says...
...safety beyond the barricades. Buford clambers over them to become one with the crowd -- one of the lads. He experiences perverse satisfaction on one occasion when he is included in the Red Brigade's order of battle. In the crowd riots at the World Cup in 1990 he is mistaken by the Italian police for a ringleader and beaten senseless. It is a punishing climax to an eight-year quest...
...wondered, could this tragedy happen to a good, clean-living, smart kid like me? Did this prove the basic impotence of individuals to determine their own fate? What would befall me next--jury duty? Mistaken arrest? Cardiac arrest...
...most frightening of Perot's characteristics is his tendency to use all his wealth and influence to conduct vendettas against those who cross him. Critics contend that on most occasions Perot is so convinced he is absolutely right that he believes those who oppose him are not just mistaken but evil, and feels perfectly justified in going after them hammer and tongs. Some examples...