Word: defections
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Giumarra is the 'South Africa' of the table grape industry," Grossman said. "They apply cancer-causing and birth defect-causing pesticides to their vineyards that grape workers come in contact with...
...given Paul's sudden spectacular loss of control, the question arises whether some defect in the steering or braking system may have been at fault. The initial postaccident inspection by police experts showed the car to have been in good mechanical condition. But the final verdict on that question may have to wait until investigators have completely dismantled and inspected the car part by part. In the past few days, experts reportedly sent Judge Stephan a series of "observations" about the car's braking system...
Although Batista is best known for his heart-trimming procedure, he is taking his beliefs about size to other areas as well. Eisenmenger syndrome is a disease caused by a septal defect, or hole in the heart. As the condition progresses, fresh and deoxygenated blood begin to mix, with the latter seeping through to the body, causing pressure to build in the lungs and stretching the lung tissue. In the U.S., the defect is usually closed up right away, but in the developing world children often grow up with the hole. Until now, the solution was a heart/lung transplant, which...
...Times was comically eager to point out that other ethnic groups probably have a lesser genetic tendency to a larger number of diseases, so Ashkenazi Jews shouldn't feel that put upon. Nevertheless, both stories raised the possibility that blood tests for this genetic defect will be used by health insurers and employers to discriminate against people with the defective gene. (Why? Oh, possibly bosses may not want their workplace atmosphere soured by a lot of grumpy people who've just undergone a colonoscopy...
...YOUR EYES Opening new avenues of research, scientists have identified a gene defect associated with age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of vision loss in people over...