Word: unravelled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...affair began to unravel in February when New York Times writer David Shipler mentioned the kidnapping in a piece printed in the Paris-based International Herald Tribune. When the Times ran Shipler's story a few days later, it deleted mention of the incident. But ze'ev Chafets, director of Israel's Government Press Office, began to make noise. He accused the media of partiality in its coverage of the Middle East and singled out the abduction of the reporters as proof the media could not be unbiased. And Chafets revealed that the correspondents involved worked for the New York...
...mathematics, and in fact helped write the M.I.T. code that competes head-on with Stanford's. Last spring, back in his spartan, second-floor office in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, the lean, blue-jeaned mathematician settled the old wager: he found a way to unravel the original Stanford system. The code Shamir broke after four years of hard work was no Buck Rogers-Dick Tracy cipher. It was a charter member, along with the M.I.T. code, of the new "public key" family of encryption schemes, so called because one of their secret code words, or keys...
Psychiatrists argue persuasively that criminals actually hope to be caught, and it has been suggested that the Tylenol plot could unravel in a way that leads to the killer's front door. Says Dr. Donald Greaves, chairman of the psychiatry department at Evanston Hospital: "A significant number of killers secretly seek destruction. They want the recognition and sense of fame they receive from their acts." Yet thus far the killer has left no clues, no letters, no hints, no demands, no hidden pleas for help. "The fact that the crime is both grandiose and anonymous is not a contradiction...
...biggest Italian bank scandals of modern times last week got bigger. Struggling to unravel the mystery surrounding $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion missing from Milan's Banco Ambrosiano, Italy's eleventh largest bank, and the apparent suicide in June of its president, Roberto Calvi, Italian authorities tried to serve notice on three of the top officials of the Vatican bank that they were under investigation for possible bank fraud. Among them was American-born Archbishop Paul Marcinkus, 60, the president of the bank, which is officially known as the Institute per le Opere di Religione (I.O.R.), or Institute...
...pedigree is of more importance in the world of lab animals than it is in any royal family. When medical researchers try to unravel the secrets of the cell, essential to understanding cancer, they must be absolutely certain of the genetic "purity" of their test subjects. Thus the biological community was rocked last week by the news that a strain of albino lab mice used by cancer investigators everywhere was genetically contaminated. The tainted mice were discovered by University of Wisconsin Biologist Brenda Kahan and her colleagues while they were growing a primitive type of tumor called a teratocarcinoma...