Word: victimizations
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the policeman's widow, a librarian named Marcella (Helen Mirren), is pointed out to Cal, he begins slyly, shyly to stalk her. Whether he seeks love or absolution-or merely to assess the damage done another victim of the act he abetted-he could not say. And the movie is resolute in its refusal to speak for him or, indeed, for anyone caught in the narrative web it constructs out of loosely woven naturalistic fibers. As it demonstrates through its minor figures the stupefaction that permanent conflict imposes on its victims, the film permits Cal to draw closer...
...Lorean's shrewd and crafty defense attorneys, Howard Weitzman and Donald Rée, maintained a similar high pitch of righteous indignation throughout the trial. They portrayed their client as an embattled entrepreneur seeking to fulfill the American dream, a man himself the victim of a giant conspiracy: "Lured, lied to and pushed" into a trap set by Government agents who were "on a headlong rush to glory." The tactic was to put the Government on trial, and it worked. De Lorean never took the stand. Nor did his lawyers ever make a direct defense on the grounds...
...heal the wounds and provide grafts to cover the massive injuries. And yet today, one year after the accident, the Selby brothers are alive and well, thanks to a new method of growing large patches of skin in laboratory flasks, using postage stamp-sized scraps retrieved from a burn victim's body...
...upper layer of living skin. Investigation showed that these epithelial cells grew because of the presence of fibroblasts, a type of cell common to the connective tissue that makes up the dermis. Green realized that the discovery had implications for burn patients: Cultured skin, derived from the victim, would not be rejected by the body's immune system. Another major advance came when Green discovered that a certain bacterial enzyme could remove skin cultures from a flask in entire sheets by loosening the bond between the cells and the plastic surface of the container...
During World War II, when quinine became scarce, hundreds of thousands of Allied troops in Africa, Sicily and the South Pacific fell victim to the disease. The U.S. Army responded with what has been called "a biological Manhattan Project." It led to development of chloroquine. More effective than quinine, it was hailed as a wonder drug. Wartime research also yielded a wonder pesticide: DDT. It was the potent combination of chloroquine and massive DDT spraying in Asia, South America and Africa (and even in the U.S., where there were pockets of malaria as recently as 1950) that fostered...