Word: fatalism
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...already burned when they fell out of the sky. Autopsies also disclosed lethal doses of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide in body tissues, proving that the fire and explosion occurred while the passengers were still breathing. I. Irving Pinkel, a former NASA expert who also investigated Apollo 1's fatal fire, found two fuselage holes with an "outward pucker," indicating an explosion from within. Finally, four members of the refueling crew swore there was no icing problem before the plane took...
...that thalidomide is among the most effective treatments for leprosy. And last week a research team from Johns Hopkins reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that the drug can also improve the survival rate of patients who get bone-marrow transplants, which are used to treat potentially fatal disorders including aplastic anemia and some blood cancers...
...most common complication of such transplants, though, is graft-vs.-host disease (GVHD), a potentially fatal reaction in which the foreign tissue tries to reject its new body (rather than the other way around). Researchers have found that thalidomide seems to keep that reaction in check. Compared with other treatments for GVHD, the drug is relatively benign -- as long as the patient is absolutely certain she's not pregnant...
...further indication of serious trouble brewing for Clinton: "the character issue," as it is generally though imprecisely called, has begun drawing the sardonic and sometimes fatal attention of those interpreters of the zeitgeist, TV's late-night talk-show hosts. Sample gibe from Johnny Carson: "Clinton experimented with marijuana, but he said he didn't inhale and didn't enjoy it. That's the trouble with the Democrats. Even when they do something wrong, they don't do it right...
...both of his abused wives. What a pity that promising playwright Jon Robin Baitz, 30, who in THE END OF THE DAY parallels Old World and New World corruption from charity medical wards to drug dealing to corporate raiding, can't stitch together a coherent narrative. His common but fatal mistakes: portraying all capitalists as repugnantly the same without making any of them believable, and sniffishly equating evil with mere bad taste...