Word: perilously
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...villains of Raymond Bonner's confused rant about elephants in Africa are misguided animal-rights activists, well-born white conservationists and elephants. Elephants? Bonner's subtitle, Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, constitutes false advertising since the book's sympathies lie with Africans who suffer at the hooves of elephants that trample crops, destroy property and kill natives. According to Bonner, elitist conservationists unleashed these malevolent beasts on hapless villagers when the World Wildlife Fund and the African Wildlife Foundation cynically pushed for an international ban on the sale of ivory in 1989 because it played well with sentimental...
Even though the researchers have not yet isolated the gene, they suspect that it represents an entirely new pathway to peril. In the past, most genes linked to cancer, including a few linked to colon cancer, have been genes that play a role in regulating cell division, in some cases stopping cell growth when DNA is damaged. When such genes are themselves deranged, genetic errors can rapidly accumulate. But the newly discovered defect is not in a damage- control gene. Instead, it seems to be a direct agent of damage that somehow unleashes wave upon wave of DNA mutations over...
...when a major sex-research study suggested that only 1% to 2% of men are homosexual, vs. the traditional assumption of 10%. The findings may be re-evaluated, but their immediate impact has been to make gays seem a far smaller group that could be shortchanged without grave political peril...
...TODESFALLE UNTER PALMEN! SCREAMED THE German tabloid. deathtrap under the palms! In the language of Florida tourism, that had worrisome further meanings: shame and financial peril. After Berlin special-education teacher Barbara Meller Jensen strayed off I-95 near Miami and was brutally murdered in front of her children in a "bump-and-run" robbery, German Consul General Klaus Sommer considered warning other Germans away from the city. Jensen was the sixth foreign (and third German) tourist killed in Florida since December...
...This isn't very good." I think it particularly struck me [because of] the portrayal of Asian men, whether or not Jonathan Pryce was in it--that crafty Oriental thing. It's taking the international Jewish conspiracy and transferring it to the Asians. It falls into the Yellow Peril idea pretty consistently. There were two issues in conflict: the casting issue and the content issue. You can't, one week, protest, "We want jobs," and the next week go up with signs that say "Racist Musical...