Word: occurance
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...violence. Also starting on April 29, the Ohio-based Council for Urban Peace and Justice will hold a four-day-long conference in Kansas City, Missouri, that is expected to draw more than 100 former and current gang members from 20 cities. The highlight of the two events will occur when gang leaders from both meetings are linked via satellite for a teleconference...
BRCA1, a gene believed to suppress tumor development, has recently been linked to breast cancer. Altered forms of BRCA1, which occur in one woman in 200, prevent it from functioning properly, and tumors can begin to grow. Another gene, p53, has also been determined to be a useful indicator of many cancers, including breast cancer...
...American Civil Liberties Union is ever ready for a legal squabble, and sometimes the most intriguing ones occur among its own 300,000 members. Lately they have been split over free speech and hate speech, sexual harassment and the Rodney King beating, the same arguments that have divided other Americans. One essential conflict is between strict libertarians, for whom individual rights are as sacred as Moses' tablets, and new-breed egalitarians who favor minority and feminist causes and are more willing to see civil liberties give ground in the name of justice and equality...
...didn't occur to me that all the other pre-frosh were staying with their first-year hosts in the Yard. I didn't know that the Yard was specifically for first-years. And because I was living down by the river, ignorant of the existence of a Yard community, I had a messed-up conception of space. When I finally encountered the Yard, I think I thought it was some kind of park. And I thought the center of University activity was in Quincy House courtyard...
Most analysts recognize the danger of Serbian action in Kosovo or Macedonia triggering a wider regional war. If that does occur, U.S. interests will be threatened, and involvement will be a must. Today's "realism" is nothing but curmudgeonly short-sightedness...