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...prone to human error.' GINGER KERRICK, NASA flight director, after an astronaut lost hold of a tool bag worth nearly $100,000 during a space walk...
...Doctors tend not to recommend trachea transplants because the windpipe is one of the body's organs most prone to rejection. But because of Sánchez's unique situation - she was young and had a rare kind of tracheal damage - Spanish medical authorities granted special permission to Macchiarini and his team to go ahead with an experimental treatment...
...Some might see a Jewish businessman investing hundreds of millions of dollars with Arab partners in the heart of the conflict-prone Middle East as a man taking the gamble of a lifetime. Not Kerzner. He came here soon after his plan to build a casino complex in the Israeli resort of Eilat fell through, and has felt at home ever since. "We are businessmen from Dubai and we look at it as business," explains bin Sulayem. "If he is the best Jewish man but has no vision, we wouldn't do business with him. But if he is from...
...only after some probing that Shelby laughingly admits that he may be prone to modesty. Indeed, in a department that has its share of high-profile faculty members both past and present, Shelby stands out as decidedly understated...
...concede that there are times I wish Bella were a bit more Buffy, slaying vampires and not just falling for them. Edward's gallantry is noble, but you wish Bella didn't need to be saved all the time, that she were less clumsy or prone to fainting. But in these days of supergirls, when our daughters seem to be confident and competent in ways I couldn't have fathomed at 14, I'm not so worried about some embedded antifeminist message. I watched way more TV growing up than my kids do and read more junk and seem...