Word: waywardly
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...Most cultures, at least of the complex, "civilized" variety, have penalized women who stray or have taken sadistic measures to prevent that from happening in the first place, from raping or killing them to labeling them "cheap." In parts of Latin America and the Middle East, "honor killings" of wayward daughters or sisters are common and treated indulgently by the courts. In some African countries, young women have their clitorises excised to dull their sexual appetite. If women are the innately more monogamous sex, why the widespread and fanatic efforts to get them to keep their legs crossed...
...Undergraduate Council has blown a good opportunity to restore some of its credibility on campus. After two hours of discussion at their meeting last week, the council rejected President Noah Z. Seton's proposal to let students decide in a campus-wide referendum what to do with the wayward $40,000 the council recently found in its bank account. Instead, the council decided to poll 400 students randomly to help them decide how to spend the funds...
...student at the University of Arkansas law school when Clinton taught there in the 1970s, though he never took a class with Clinton. Hutchinson went on to become a prosecutor, and in 1984, as a U.S. Attorney, he brought a cocaine-distributing charge against Roger Clinton, the Governor's wayward half-brother. Roger pleaded guilty, and at the sentencing, Governor Clinton thanked Hutchinson for helping save Roger's life...
...culture, are about to reach another climax. Beyond the obvious reason that the year 2000 is at hand, there's the end of the cold war, which threatened for a while to deprive us of the sheer glamour of imagined annihilation. Even Hollywood has had to resort lately to wayward asteroids, space invaders and Godzilla as a way to provide that strangely agreeable image, civilization getting wrecked. "Yeah," we tell ourselves, as the space rock/laser beam/Japanese reptile whacks another ugly office building. "That should only happen to everything...
...takes a few cells from Jose's tumor and places them on a microchip. Within minutes, the chip identifies five mutant genes that, like some kind of diabolical cheerleading squad, have pushed Jose's cancer to grow, grow, grow. Someday, perhaps soon, doctors will be able to fix the wayward genes themselves. Until then, they will have to rely on the next best thing: drugs developed by pharmaceutical firms that block the destructive messages generated by the errant genes. Jose's physician selects a combination of treatments that matches the tumor's genetic profile. Six months later, no trace...