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In Hong Kong the South China Morning Post reported on its front page that Indonesia's anti-riot forces have been ordered "to shoot to cripple rather than kill" in clashes with protestors.
Null mutation of LIFR results in neonatal death and defects in many systems including absence of glial cells, osteoporosis, glycogen hyper-synthesis, placental defects [ 31 ] and loss of motor neuronal subsets that cripple suckling ability [ 32 ] . In all of the systems affected as a biological consequence of LIFR loss, an explanation of the mechanism of action can be designed around direct action of LIFR in each system.
Economists everywhere would frown on the idea of ghettoizing an industry that is only in its infancy--to do so would irrevocably cripple its progress and make the possibility of lower costs almost nonexistent.
The conservative journalists and other reactionaries who have shoved her story onto the nation's front pages hope not only to cripple the president's ability to control the Republican-led Congress, but weaken his support among women voters, who backed him overwhelmingly for re-election and will be equally instrumental in promoting Al Gore to the Oval Office in 2000.
The Mars Polar Lander disaster threatens to cripple NASA's space exploration program, which has struggled since the "national psychic letdown that followed the moon landings."