Word: odd
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Despite these technological obstacles, medical researchers are sanguine about the future of gene therapy. To date, they have injected about 1,500 patients with some form of altered genes as part of the more than 200 gene-therapy trials taking place worldwide. Among the 30-odd illnesses targeted in these trials are cystic fibrosis, vascular disease and 15 forms of cancer...
This reasoning can lead conservatives like me to seemingly odd places. It is, for example, one of the primary sources of my pro-choice beliefs. If the government decides when and if a woman may have an abortion, it deprives that woman of the opportunity to arrive at a moral decision for herself, one based on her own independent evaluation of what constitutes right conduct. If the government makes her decision for her, then her resulting action is, for her, neither moral or immoral--it is coerced. I'm with Aristotle in believing that virtue is to some extent...
...odd world of high technology, a great product, a remarkable corporate transformation and market acceptance could in fact be an epitaph. The Next Big Thing, just a gleam in some undergraduate's eye today, could put your company out of business tomorrow. Andy Grove, the Intel CEO who led his microprocessor company through a series of similarly wrenching changes a decade ago, has distilled the essence of competing in a high-tech world down to a single sentence: "Only the paranoid survive." He's right. Uncertainty is the watchword of the new digital age. That's why Microsoft is throwing...
...trouble of having a perfectly good earthquake, the folks on the West Coast might at least notice. A new study reveals, however, that in 1992, what should have been a china-smashing 4.8 Richter-scale quake hit central California, and yet nobody felt a thing. The explanation for the odd shadow-quake was published last week in the journal Nature and may help improve science's understanding of earthquakes in general...
...stepping into plotholes of delirious implausibility, the two men get into tough-guy bonding at its wettest. Moses has no girlfriend, and Keats' has an ulterior agenda. After a while the standard gross-out talk of action movies--the gay-baiting gags and threats of fellatio--makes for an odd subtext. All these swaggering men who say they hate each other are really in love...