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Spending around $5 million over ten years to fortify 95% of wheat flour would prevent annually 140 deaths from neural tube
defects
and more than 250,000 cases of anemia.
This had two big
defects.
As has become a ritual on such commemorative occasions, the death toll is tallied in the hundreds of thousands, and fresh reports are made of elevated rates of cancer, birth defects, and overall mortality.
The
defects
in Europe’s asylum legislation and the difference among its member states’ practices have been evident for some time.
We are skeptical about unfettered individualism because of our awareness of man's sins, but also because of our profound awareness of the historical
defects
and aberrations in Germany's 20th century history.
At the same time, molecular biologists have been working to overcome human disease by deciphering the entire sequence of the human genome and constructing tools to correct genetic and cellular
defects.
Of course, some already-visible
defects
will need to be modified.
Indeed, although the war with Georgia demonstrated the revived combat spirit of the Russian army – at least when compared to its ineptness in the two Chechen wars of the 1990’s – it also exhibited the grave
defects
of Russian military technology.
For the Fukushima nuclear-power plant, a 1,000-year flood and ordinarily innocuous design
defects
combined to deprive the reactors of circulating water coolant and cause serious radiation leaks.
In financial markets, an unexpected collapse in real-estate securities and design
defects
in the derivatives and repo markets combined to damage core financial institutions’ ability make good on their payment obligations.
While the basic risks originated outside the systems – a tsunami for Fukushima, over-investment in real-estate mortgages for financial institutions – design
defects
and bad luck meant that the system couldn’t contain the damage.
We now understand the Fukushima risks and design
defects
well.
But, when over-used by systemically vital firms, they can blow up the financial system, owing to its design
defects.
In the US, the main design
defects
are in bankruptcy law, which exempts derivatives and repos from most regular bankruptcy constraints.
For example, mutations, or defects, at specific molecular locations in human DNA were found to be responsible for some cancers, raising the hope of developing successful therapies tailored to individual patients.
But, instead of addressing these defects, the EU is moving toward a banking union, in which member countries’ credit risks are pooled via a single deposit-insurance system, supervisory mechanism, and bank-resolution mechanism.
Yet, in the euro crisis, the center’s responsibility is even greater than it was in 1982 or 1997: it designed a flawed currency system and failed to correct the
defects.
When the German people become aware of the consequences – one hopes not too late – they will want to correct the
defects
in the euro's design.
If business conditions are auspicious and there is a strong consensus in favor of liberal capitalism as the polity’s core economic principle, financial markets can develop and reluctantly absorb risks stemming from the legal system’s
defects.
We will be able to take a blood sample, determine the possibility of genetic defects, and create a probabilistic health history of what is likely to happen.
Understandably, they may want PGD to prevent similar
defects
in their future children.
But the new regime is not without
defects.
This deterministic approach is rooted in an outdated nineteenth-century view of scientific method, and it suffers from two glaring
defects.
As long as the Soviet Union provided a clear threat to the open societies of the West, the
defects
of geopolitics did not matter.
Though today’s biomedical science claims to search for repairs of nature’s defects, too many of its practitioners behave as if their real purpose were only to gain the mythical immortality of precedence, at whatever cost to themselves or others.
Only if the other player
defects
– that is, begins to display non-cooperative behavior – should you do the same.
There are many possible interventions – such as providing folic acid to prevent birth defects, introducing new vaccines, or treating infections earlier – that we know could have an impact on child mortality.
The consequences of maternal malnutrition are far-reaching, including higher child-mortality rates, more birth defects, increased susceptibility to infection, and specific nutritional deficiencies that can lock a child into a vicious cycle of poor health early in life.
But, when teams lose, these stereotypical virtues are damned with equal conviction as characteristic defects: German lack of imagination, Italian fear of attack, Dutch selfishness, the absence of national feeling among ethnic minorities in France, and so on.
Now that the US has at last begun to move, gradually and thoughtfully, away from the passions that characterized the country’s response to the 2001 terrorist attacks, it is worth asking if Bill Clinton was right to say that America’s virtues and assets always prevail against its vices and
defects.
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