Word: warding
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...rather than imprison you. As for the Canadian currently being held in the second-floor lock-up: according to detectives, he's ingested too much lamphong, a locally grown intoxicating flower that causes vivid hallucinations and can cause permanent psychological damage. They'll be shipping him to a psychiatric ward on the mainland, to a place called, of all things, Suan Sanarom--the Garden of Joys...
...Lorrayne S. Ward...
Pending publication of their results in a scientific journal, the Necker researchers are reluctant to divulge details. However, it appears that two 18-month-old boys with SCID remain healthy nine months after undergoing gene therapy. Their newfound ability to ward off infections that plagued them as infants appears to be a direct consequence of their receiving functioning copies of a gene that is crucial to the body's ability to fight disease...
When I was injured, I had a roommate in my four-bed ward who was making no effort to continue his education or plan for a new career. One day he told me why: "I'm going to wait seven years for a cure. Then I'm going to kill myself...
...much of the grunt work at Silicon Valley practices like Gunderson Dettmer and blue-chip New York firms like Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. First-year compensation packages will top $140,000, up from under $100,000 just three years ago. The higher wages are designed to ward off dotcoms seeking to hire lawyers directly rather than "rent" them through a firm. "The legal industry is unique in that corporations have the option of bringing legal services inhouse or outsourcing them to a law firm," says Robert Major, partner at Major, Hagen and Africa, a San Francisco firm...