Word: avoiding
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While they attempted to avoid interrupting the duties of staffers, PSLM members said it was their intention to disrupt the overall message of pre-frosh weekend...
There's much more to learn, of course, and many pitfalls to avoid. Consider the case of a 52-year-old American athlete with Parkinson's disease, who in 1989--before human stem cells had been isolated from the brain--traveled to China for a fetal-cell transplant. The goal was to replace some of the diseased neurons in his brain with newly differentiated fetal nerve tissue. While that approach has been at least partly successful in hundreds of other cases, something went dreadfully wrong this time. About two years later, the man suddenly developed trouble breathing and died...
...tried all my life to avoid dysfunctional people, and I wound up seeing all of them in one motion picture. I paid good money and spent two hours sitting in the dark like a captive, waiting to be rescued by some redeeming goodness--in vain. That was my experience of seeing American Beauty! R. FREDERICK GRACE Alhambra, Calif...
...they can be sent to the front lines in the battle against disease. But no obstacle should stand in the way of responsible investigation of their possibilities. To that end, the work should be funded and supervised by the Federal Government through the National Institutes of Health. That will avoid abuses by for-profit corporations, avoid secrecy and destructive competition between laboratories and ensure the widest possible dissemination of scientific breakthroughs. Human trials should be conducted either on the NIH campus or in carefully monitored clinical facilities...
...York City fireman (Dennis Quaid) dies in a warehouse blaze. Or maybe he doesn't. Maybe he enters a parallel universe. For in 1999 his son, a cop (Jim Caviezel), gets in touch with him, thanks to ham radio (and our suspended disbelief), and tells him how to avoid his fate. But rejigger a tiny piece of the past, and new problems arise. Suddenly, father and son are messily involved with a serial killer. Working-class Queens is a surprising, effective sci-fi setting, but the jumbled storyline is hard to track. Finally you give up on it--and, alas...