Word: effective
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Rahman: Hosni Mubarak rules Egypt by fire and iron. He has turned Egypt into a police state. The emergency law in Egypt has been in effect since the first day Mubarak took power. Mubarak knows that if he tried to rule Egypt under civil law, he would not remain in power for one hour...
...premature rush to get unproved gene therapies out of the laboratory and into human patients. Researchers are still not sure which are the best methods to transport genes into affected cells. Nor have they figured out how to stop people's own immune systems from rejecting what are, in effect, microscopic transplants of foreign material...
...Institute, a conservative law foundation, the Tulls are framing their defense around free speech. "At the core of the issue is the father's right to express his concerns and convictions to the mother," says Rutherford's Brad Dacus. "For the opposition to be successful would have a chilling effect on that kind of free speech...
...Pulitzer Prize for referencing goes to Bret Easton Ellis, whose famously lazy prose has made him the Danny Bonaduce of letters. In the hands of British writer Nick Hornby, though, the affectation is used to excellent effect. Hornby, 38, is worshipped in Britain for his 1992 book, Fever Pitch, a humorous memoir about his life as a soccer fan. In this first novel, High Fidelity (Riverhead Books; $21.95; 323 pages), he demonstrates his enviable talent for lucid, laconic writing...
...with a single grilled window. Because "your relatives are continuing to attack the Soviet Union," Yurovsky told Nicholas, the committee had ordered his execution. A firing squad of 11 Russians and Latvians began shooting. The scene was bizarre as well as murderous. Some of the women were wearing, in effect, priceless bulletproof vests: they had hidden jewels in their corsets, which sent slugs ricocheting around the room. Pulses were checked and the stripped bodies loaded onto a truck for burial elsewhere. The "whole procedure," as Yurovsky called it, took 20 minutes...