Word: vital
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Cloning could be vital to that process. At present, introducing genes into chromosomes is very much a hit-or-miss proposition. Scientists might achieve the result they intend once in 20 times, making the procedure far too risky to perform on a human embryo. Through cloning, however, scientists could make 20 copies of the embryo they wished to modify, greatly boosting their chance of success...
This technique uses slightly radioactive dyes, which are injected into the bloodstream and then tracked in the blood by special rotating cameras. A three-dimensional image of blood flow is created, which doctors use to diagnose diseases of the brain, heart and other vital organs...
...workings of the investigation of the President. The American public and their soaring approval of the President cheapen the national character in the eyes of the world, and perhaps in the realm of American history in the decades to come. This scandal, complex and unsubstantiated, has woefully derailed vital American policy in Iraq, Bosnia and Israel...
...became all the more vital to portray her as a vulnerable victim of an ugly power struggle. Ginsburg may not be a criminal lawyer, but he knows how to do p.r. The bearded, besweatered, avuncular lawyer, looking every inch the indignant father figure, gave a string of carefully chosen television interviews. He directed his fire both at Starr and the President for "savaging" a "child." "My client...is at the vortex of a storm involving three of the most powerful people in the United States: President Clinton, Vernon Jordan and Kenneth Starr...
...year-old beauty queen after she was garroted. The flashlight was spotted on the kitchen counter of the Ramseys' home on the morning that JonBenet's body was found, but then disappeared. Some investigators dismissed it as belonging to a police officer. But now, TIME has learned, the potentially vital piece of evidence has turned up. After the new police commander, MARK BECKNER, ordered a full review of all case files and materials, it was discovered--where else?--right at police headquarters, in a storage area where investigators are holding a pile of other evidence. The flashlight, which doesn...