Word: partiality
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...Clinic found symptoms that they weren't expecting and didn't find some that they were. The skin rash thought to be the hallmark of the virus showed up in only about 25% of cases. On the other hand, nearly half the patients studied experienced significant muscle weakness or partial paralysis. In fact, paralysis--up to and including generalized quadriplegia--was so common that doctors are starting to compare West Nile to the last major epidemic of infectious paralysis: the polio outbreak of the 1950s...
...Sharon is keenly aware of the strongly pro-Likud sentiment of the hawkish faction of the Bush administration, which together with the overwhelming support on Capitol Hill for his own policies has given him the freedom to cherry-pick U.S. positions. Even his embrace of the roadmap has been partial and conditional, and he claims to have achieved understandings with Washington that issues such as the settlement freeze - which Sharon finds politically difficult as one of the founding fathers of the movement to settle Israeli civilians on lands occupied in 1967 but never annexed - will be dealt with separately...
...most puzzling--and most tantalizing--clue involves the young woman's arms. Her left arm is intact, but her right one had been wrenched off below the shoulder. As it happens, two partial right arms turned up in the discarded mummy wrappings. The better preserved of the two is a woman's arm that may be in a flexed position; the hand on the arm is clasped. If attached to the young woman's body, the arm would be bent across her chest and the hand could have held a scepter--an Egyptian sign of kingly power. "This was clearly...
...they're sticking to the image and the hard-driving rock that have turned Koil into one of Indonesia's biggest underground bands. Partial to black latex, rubber vests and platform shoes, the look is industrial Goth and the music an amalgam of slow, chunky guitar over samples of synthesized voices and haunting noises punctuated by the growls of Otong. The 30-year-old, with dreads down to his waist, personifies the band's DIY ethos, a trait that has earned it a fanatical cult following and critical acclaim. After two albums and a demo in 10 years, the band...
...week the Faculty’s Standing Committee on the Core Program passed new guidelines that will liberate students from one Core requirement for every semester of credit they earn abroad. Students may also apply for exemption from the Foreign Cultures requirement on the basis of a summer or partial term spent studying overseas. This welcome policy will make study abroad more feasible...