Word: raring
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Bravest New Surgery Medical science, which can do remarkable things to repair the human body, took a giant step by daring to tinker with the original blueprint. In the first authorized use of gene therapy, a four-year-old girl with a rare and deadly enzyme deficiency received genetically engineered cells that could control her illness. So far, she is doing well, and scientists hope eventually to treat other illnesses the same...
...serious is the risk from electromagnetic fields? Compared with some of the other dangers people take for granted -- driving a car on New Year's Eve, for example -- the odds of being afflicted with some of the cancers associated with electromagnetism are rather small. Brain cancer is a rare disease. Only 3.1 cases per 100,000 people were reported in 1986. In the most worrisome studies, the risk of developing such a cancer appears to double or triple because of ELF fields. By contrast, the risk of lung cancer for a chain smoker is 20 times as great...
...here, in the ruined face of such a man, that The Godfather Part III locates an emotional gravity rare in American movies. The film is a slow fuse with a big bang -- one that echoes through every family whose own tragedy is an aching for things past and loved ones lost...
...books, magazines, dictionaries--you name it--are still stolen every day. Our tuition goes not only to replace those materials (many of which are rare and quite expensive), but we also have to pay for these book-checkers to listen to their Walkmans and arch their necks each time they pass by. Add to that the cost though is the frustration of doing without stolen books and magazines that haven't been replaced, and you have a serious problem...
...first in-depth analysis of the Gulf crisis, and a rare summary of Iraqi history, Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf is a good way for the average American to become aware of the situation. Judith Miller, a special correspondent for the New York Times, and Mylroie, a Bradley Foundation fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard, offer a clear, concise and thoroughly readable explanation of how American troops came to be stationed in the Saudi Arabian desert...