Word: unravelled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Burt and Loni How did the magic unravel? After five years of marriage, Burt Reynolds sued Loni Anderson for divorce, and the subsequent conflict was extremely snarly. The high point -- spectaclewise -- came when Reynolds, on TV, challenged his ex to truth-serum and lie-detector tests to prove that she cheated on him before he cheated...
...Great Gene Hunt. It was an extraordinarily productive year for the genetic engineers racing to unravel the secrets of human DNA. Scientists not only pinpointed genes linked to more than half a dozen major ailments -- including Lou Gehrig's disease, Huntington's disease, colon cancer, hyperactivity and a type of diabetes -- but also sketched out the first rough map of all human chromosomes. Other researchers explored ways to use this information to replace damaged genes. The first beneficiaries of ''gene therapy'' -- two Ohio girls who have an immune-deficiency disease -- made their public debut after three years of successful treatment...
...Africa in the 19th century. The partitioning rarely followed tribal or cultural boundaries, and created some of the most nonsensical and least workable international borders in the world. Yet since independence in the 1960s, Africa's nations have held those borders sacred, fearful that unpicking a single seam might unravel the whole patchwork. On a map, one of the more irrational colonial creations is the West African nation of Gambia. Save for a brief Atlantic coastline, the slender country, which wraps around the banks of the River Gambia and was formed after British traders set up a series of posts...
...wrote about the safety concerns plaguing nasa's space-shuttle program [Aug. 8]. I was among the millions of people around the world who watched the touchdown of the shuttle Discovery on television. The craft's journey to space and back was another stride in mankind's effort to unravel the mystery of the universe. We hope the benefits from the efforts in space will also reach us in rural Africa, where poverty, disease and hunger are making life for the majority of people not worth living. How we wish that the billions of dollars spent on the Discovery...
...fully open to the views of his fellow judges." As for precedent, Roberts affirmed that it "plays an important role in promoting the stability of the legal system." If nothing else, that was politically shrewd, since it heartened liberals, who felt he wouldn't set out to unravel every regulation of the past 30 years, but also conservatives, who felt reassured that he wouldn't use a seat on the bench to confect a constitutional right to gay marriage...