Word: victimization
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...recessive gene carried on the x (female) chromosome. If a hemophilic man marries a normal woman, all their sons are normal but all their daughters are carriers. If a carrier woman marries a normal man (see diagram), each son has a fifty-fifty chance of being a victim and each daughter has a fifty-fifty chance of being a carrier. No one can predict whether a child will be affected, because a sort of genetic lottery decides which of the mother's chromosomes the child inherits. (How Victoria got the defective gene is a mystery. Medical sleuthing has failed...
...same disease, but his trouble was actually caused by lack of clotting Factor IX. This affliction is now called hemophilia B. It is transmitted the same way as hemophilia A, but the two diseases can be distinguished by the fact that blood from a hemophilia A victim, which contains Factor IX, will clot blood from a hemophilia B victim. A hemophilia B's blood, with its Factor VIII, will make an A's blood clot. Of an estimated 100,000 victims of clotting disorders in the U.S., 50,000 have hemophilia A and 15,000 have...
...flavor. I thought perhaps the anonymous chap with the curare -dipped stiletto had been put to pasture and was perhaps pursuing some hobby, like milking rattlesnakes. It would appear instead that he merely paused to sharpen his fangs. While it is difficult to work up much sympathy for the victim, who is probably tapping his glass slipper in protest, any poor bastard blitzed with such deft and delicate razor strokes is deserving of pity. Wait until he tries to turn the other cheek...
...happening, asks Columbia University's Provost Jacques Barzun, "to the beautiful notion of developing the imaginative and the reasoning powers apart from marketable skill?" In a day when "one sheepskin to one sheep is no longer enough," he says, "the liberal arts tradition is dead or dying"-a victim of the pressure for college work in high school and for graduate work in college. "Sooner or later the college as we know it will find that it has no proper place in the scheme of things," says Barzun...
...hapless victim of the mess is giant American Express Co., whose subsidiary operates the tank farm in which Allied Crude supposedly stored millions of pounds of oil. One of Allied's creditors holds receipts for 161 million Ibs. of oil supposedly in Amexco's 138 tanks -but as of last week Amexco had only been able to find 7,000,000 Ibs. American Express stock plummeted from $60 to $41 a share because stockholders feared that the company's unusual organizational setup might make it liable for the complete loss; Amexco is an unincorporated joint-stock venture...