Word: unraveler
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...done correctly, DNA profiling has the potential to help unravel cases that would otherwise go unsolved...
...says, the enmity and distrust between Protestants and Catholics has hardly waned since the declaration of a cease-fire. According to a poll released today in the Irish media, a scant 9 percent of all Protestants in Ireland believe the cease-fire will be permanent. "You can't unravel 25 years of bitterness in a day," says Connelly. "The hard part is just beginning...
Twenty years ago today, Richard Nixon dodged the bullet of impeachment by resigning as president of the United States. The Watergate scandal that caused his political demise began to unravel with news reports of burglary in 1972 at Democratic Party headquarters. It became clear that Richard Nixon had played a key role in covering up the crime. During the last decade, Nixon worked hard to rehabilitate his reputation. But upon his death earlier this year he was remembered widely as the only president to step down before his term of office expired...
...they will look when studying the brain -- donated to science -- of serial killer John Wayne Gacy, executed last May in Illinois. Suppose a Gage-like defect is found? Will it seem fair to have executed the man if he was physically incapable of moral judgment? As science begins to unravel bits of personality, accountability unravels with it. The person becomes his parts -- some working, some defective through no fault of his own. Will it become incumbent upon society to submit all killers to a brain scan? Would that not be fairer than having psychiatrists battle in court over the merits...
...every 231 inhabitants -- it suffers from a critical shortage of medications and medical supplies. Last year's mysterious neuropathy epidemic, which affected more than 50,000 people and was apparently linked to nutritional deficiencies, has run its course with no deaths, but critical shortages are threatening to unravel a health system once described by the Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO), a branch of the World Health Organization, as "better than that provided by the rest of the Americas...