Word: reacts
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...complete misunderstanding of sarcasm or wit. I admit that Ms. Kirk should have known better than to trust The Crimson with a chance to use swear words in a front-page story. (I do wonder how your alumni readers as well as parents who subscribe to your newspaper react to your casual use of "mother fucking" on the front page.) Nonetheless, I feel that your reporter, or at least an editor should have taken more care with the victim of such a disaster and aimed for a more empathetic story, rather than treating the event as a spectacle...
...therapy strategically splices foreign DNA--which direct the assembly of specific proteins--into the cells of certain tissues. Researchers hope that when these proteins are expressed, they will allow the body's normal metabolic and immune systems to react in lethal fashion, either killing the disease or fixing the defect in the original gene...
Clearly, this proposal is not currently mainstream, nor is there any indication that it is swimming thither. But we should not dismiss its prospective import, nor should we lose any time in pointing out its fundamental flaws. We should not react to undesirable trends in the rulings of the Supreme Court by advancing proposals which would undermine the basic fabric of American democracy. As Hamilton wrote, our Republic is and must be based on the conviction that "the interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts...
...They were taken aback," he says. "But they didn't react harshly. They didn't kick me out of the house or anything. They have been open to my lifestyle...
...such anti-Semitic backlash makes some Swiss Jews wish the Americans would back off a bit. "Many Swiss resent that they are made to feel guilty," says Rolf Bloch, 66, president of the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities. "If they are attacked in a collective way, they will react. One reaction is anti-Semitism. In Switzerland today, there is not as much anti-Semitism as in the '30s. But it's flaring up again...