Word: victimizer
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...control because the relaxed rules of civil discovery permit lawyers for the plaintiff to rummage freely through the defendant's sexual history, to try to prove a pattern of "unwanted advances." In criminal trials involving serious sexual allegations, such as rape, inquiries into the sexual history of the alleged victim and the defendant are more carefully limited...
...Saddam still maintains his defiance, Clinton has to ponder what the next American move will be. In fact, decision makers in Washington are still wrestling with the possibility that Saddam actually wants the U.S. to attack. He could then lay out his corpses for television cameras, strike a victim's pose and fend off forever any effort to locate his weapons of mass destruction. Senior U.S. officials agree privately that the options are not good, but they end up arguing almost angrily that doing nothing is the worst...
Cloning individual human cells, however, is another matter. Biologists are already talking about harnessing for medical purposes the technique that produced the sheep called Dolly. They might, for example, obtain healthy cells from a patient with leukemia or a burn victim and then transfer the nucleus of each cell into an unfertilized egg from which the nucleus has been removed. Coddled in culture dishes, these embryonic clones--each genetically identical to the patient from which the nuclei came--would begin to divide...
...cells would not have to grow into a fetus, however. The addition of powerful growth factors could ensure that the clones develop only into specialized cells and tissue. For the leukemia patient, for example, the cloned cells could provide an infusion of fresh bone marrow, and for the burn victim, grafts of brand-new skin. Unlike cells from an unrelated donor, these cloned cells would incur no danger of rejection; patients would be spared the need to take powerful drugs to suppress the immune system. "Given its potential benefit," says Dr. Robert Winston, a fertility expert at London's Hammersmith...
...years older than I convicted of a horrendous crime while the prosecutors know he may be innocent. Cousin stands in the middle of a blizzard of controversy, screaming for answers, while truth and innocence are lost. Fingers were pointed at a black kid because there was a white victim. Wake up, America! The answers to problems in the judicial system are not on death row. TINGTING PENG, age 14 Lexington, Mass...