Word: weaknessness
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-- The trembling and muscle weakness of Parkinson's disease improved in a small number of patients who received regular electrical pulses to the brain. The patients had fewer painful spasms and were better able to walk and talk after the treatments.
Students hesitate to say whether the mass movement into consulting reflects a general weakness in liberal arts education. But even if so many students are interested in consulting out of default, Cosentino says this is not a big problem.
Their troubles started three months later. Jake began to limp on his left front leg; the vet diagnosed osteochondritis, an inherited bone condition, and had to operate. The bill came to $650. Six months later, Jake went lame again, and X rays showed severe dysplasia, a hereditary weakness of the...
Hereditary weakness can be introduced even when there is no underlying genetic defect at all. The biological interplay between individual genes can be extremely complicated, and breeding to enhance one characteristic can have unintended consequences. Vets believe the retinal disease that afflicts most collies may fall into this category. The...
The Internet was built to be an open and cooperative system. That's its strength -- and its weakness. "It's a fragile environment," says Pipeline founder James Gleick. "There's no cleverness in breaking a system like Pipeline. We're not MCI. We're exactly the kind of small-scale...