Word: victimized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...murder, since 1963, books accusing the Cubans, the Mafia, and even the CIA have become a veritable cottage industry. The worst of these have had all the marks of crack-pot conspiracy theories, delegitimizing the conclusion reached even by a 1979 government committee that Kennedy probably was the victim of a conspiracy...
...mysteries of this remarkable system, the ancients were aware of immunity. They knew from experience that anyone who survived certain diseases would not be likely to get them again. As early as the 11th century, Chinese doctors were manipulating the immune system. By blowing pulverized scabs from a smallpox victim into their patients' nostrils, they could often induce a mild case of the disease that prevented a more severe onslaught. In the 1700s, people rubbed their skin with dried scabs to protect themselves against the disease...
...immune-system component missing or malfunctioning, usually for genetic reasons. In one in 10,000 people, the deficiency leads to serious disorders. Perhaps the most tragic example is severe combined immunodeficiency disease, a rare condition in which both B cells and T cells are lacking. The most famous SCID victim, a Texas boy named David, lived for twelve years in a germ-free bubble while doctors searched in vain for a cure for his disease. He died in 1984, four months after receiving a bone-marrow transplant that doctors hoped would supply his missing immune cells...
Some are calling it a new twist on the old trial strategy of blaming the victim. "The she-asked-for-it defense doesn't work anymore," says Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz. "So now we're hearing she demanded it." The first use of that argument may have been in the trial last year in St. Louis County, Mo., of Dennis Bulloch, who faced murder charges in the death of his wife. Julia Bulloch's body, bound to a chair with adhesive tape, had been found in the burned remains of the couple's garage, which Bulloch admitted torching...
...enactments (and helped catch five suspects). But doubtless, what makes America's Most Wanted the highest-rated show on the Fox network's schedule is the tabloid sensationalism of its crime dramatizations. The hand- held camera, slow-motion scenes of violence, and point-of-view shots of the victim cowering or the murderer attacking might have been lifted straight from Friday the 13th. Equally unsettling is the juxtaposition of these lurid minidramas with the appearance of actual witnesses and victims (some of whom have even participated in the re-enactments). Were it not for the show's crime-fighting credentials...