Word: safely
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When a microbe replicates itself over many generations, mutations in the DNA that forms the organism's genetic blueprint can sometimes make it safe from an antibiotic. If, for example, the drug kills the bacterium by latching onto a specific molecule on its cell wall, a change in that molecule could make it impossible for the antibiotic to stick to its target. It's something like the protect-the-perimete r strategy used by defenders of ramparts on medieval fortresses. In other cases, says Neu, the bacteria develop enzymes capable of destroying the antibiotics and even molecular pumps that expel...
...safe in Croatia, Marijana, 17, stuttered out the terrible events of last April. After raping her and her mother, Serb irregulars carried Marijana off to a camp in the forest, where she and a group of other women were raped repeatedly over several weeks. They finally freed her when she became pregnant; she vows, "I will not give birth." But her doctor says she is in her 20th week and an abortion is out of the question. No one at the hospital has been brave enough to tell her that...
...Serbs and Croats to turn on the Muslims with such ferocity that many Muslims now conspire in their own flight. So too do international officials, who have been put in the excruciating position of aiding the evacuation of endangered Muslims -- and thereby abetting ethnic cleansing. The Serbs agreed to safe passage for 300 women and children from Sarajevo last week for humanitarian reasons, for public relations advantage, though relief officials believe their motive was really to depopulate the city. In northern Bosnia, Serbs announced a plan to push 28,000 Muslims from towns in the region, after the U.N. aided...
With a glance at a note card, Bush hit the need to compete globally and once again identified education and safe streets as requisites. But once again, no specifics of note. In fact, a brief discussion of drug policy illustrated the President's casual attitude toward domestic issues and the degree to which politics drives policy. During the 1988 campaign, hardly a day passed without Bush decrying the evils of drugs. He knew how to end "this scourge," he said repeatedly; he'd learned "a lot" about the problem at the cia and as the head of President Reagan...
Under my guidance she spurned the safe, the predictable, the above-board...