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Augustine understood that our capacity to screw up, it's not some kind of embarrassing defect in the human system, something we can eradicate or overcome.
And this was something that was really brought home to me a year ago when I found out I was pregnant and the first scan revealed that my baby had a birth defect associated with exposure to estrogenic chemicals in the womb and the second scan revealed no heartbeat.
So what we've been doing in my lab is looking at these unique sensory specialists, the bats, and we have looked at genes that cause blindness when there's a defect in them, genes that cause deafness when there's a defect in them, and now we can predict which sites are most likely to cause disease.
That's Danny Bessette, 23 years later, because this is the year, and it's also the year where Danny got married, where we have, for the first time, the approval by the FDA of a drug that precisely targets the defect in cystic fibrosis based upon all this molecular understanding.
But the problem is, there's only so much you can take, and also when you do that operation, your patients might actually have significant pain in that defect site even two years after the operation.
We were looking forward to rebuilding it, but eight months after we moved in, I suffered a stroke-like attack caused by a birth defect.
It's not a birth defect.
That means that it's starting to seem like a character defect not to want to be a fully engaged father.
This isn't just a defect in your eyes; if you can see, then optical illusions can trick you with your glasses on or with this paper or computer screen right up in your face.
I was 35 years old at the time, and I knew that that meant we had a higher risk of having a child with a birth defect.
The doctor explained that one of our twins, Thomas, had a fatal birth defect called anencephaly.
Nonviolent activists can neutralize the military by causing soldiers to defect.
And she called poverty "a personality defect."
And the digital me told me I have a genetic defect.
Its handle was too short, and Loki smirked at the obvious defect.
We have this gene defect in our mind.
In one of the joints between over 9,000 magnets in LHC, there was a manufacturing defect.
And here's the crucial thing: there is such a thing as a defect in a story.
I don't just mean a logical defect.
She had a spina bifida defect, a spinal cord abnormality.
But, if we start to understand that cancer isn't just a molecular defect, it's something more, then we'll get to new ways of treating it, as I'll show you.
Fetal alcohol syndrome is a very serious birth defect that is totally preventable.
This story focuses on the birth defect known as FAS, or Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, a disease diagnosed too often among Native Americans.
The only defect is that OSS 117 is too short.
Panegyric books or films all have that defect: they are looking at the person they are supposed to portrait from only one point of view.
His task is to defect to the North Koreans and offer his services against United Nations forces.
Stating he was ordered to defect, he sadly learns his commanding officer has been killed and has no evidence or proof of his innocence.
If the work is worth watching or reading you won't mind them - and if you are considering directing or producing a version of the written work you will find a way to overcome the defect.
Who knows if his voices were symptoms of mental defect or small epileptic fits etc.? When the movie was ending I was thinking that it was one of the best movies I had ever seen.
Interestingly enough, although you can't hear her perfectly, Miss Brooks appeared to possibly have either a speech defect or perhaps an odd accent--either way, her voice might just be the reason she retired soon after this film.
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