Early on, the question arises: " Does such a thing as ' the fatal flaw ,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature?

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

He fell to the fatal wrath of Artemis, but the surviving details of his transgression vary: " the only certainty is in what Aktaion suffered, his pathos, and what Artemis did: the hunter became the hunted ; he was transformed into a stag, and his raging hounds, struck with a ' wolf's frenzy ' ( Lyssa ), tore him apart as they would a stag.

Remaining issues, such as the cuspy halo problem and the dwarf galaxy problem of cold dark matter, are not fatal to the dark matter explanation as solutions to such problems exist which involve only further refinements of the theory.

However, they are much less toxic than their predecessors, the barbiturates, and death rarely results when a benzodiazepine is the only drug taken ; however, when combined with other central nervous system depressants such as alcohol and opiates, the potential for toxicity and fatal overdose increases.

Chapman died the next day, becoming the only player to sustain a fatal injury from a pitched ball.

One such fatal poison is secretly administered by the Harkonnens to Thufir Hawat, the Mentat of House Atreides, in order to keep Hawat's allegiance as the only provider of the antidote ( in the 1984 movie version, it is shown that Hawat has to milk a gruesome captive cat for the antidote every day ).

Similar editions had appeared for Aeschylus and Sophoclesthe only plays of theirs that survive today: " The rise of Goths and Tartars throughout the Roman world from the gutter to the throne, the destruction of libraries by choleric and fanatical popes and emperors, were unfavourable to the progress but not entirely fatal to the preservation of literary studies.

The more one reflects on it, the more one finds that this state was the least subject to upheavals and the best for man, and that he must have left it only by virtue of some fatal chance happening that, for the common good, ought never to have happened.

The low-voltage integrated circuit inside the cartridge is extremely ESD sensitive, and can be destroyed by an event of only a few dozen volts which cannot even be felt by the person, delivering a fatal shock to the game unit.

Personal weapons include the stunner, with variable settings, which is fatal only to those who are susceptible to heart failure ; the nerve disrupter, which does no visible damage but essentially lobotomizes the victim ; the needler, which fires many small sharp projectiles which tear the flesh of the victim, resulting in death ; and the plasma arc, which burns and potentially destroys anything in the line of fire.

The fact that he not only did nothing to remove existing difficulties, but remained passive while his colleagues took the fatal step which led directly to separation, is in itself clear proof of his entire incapacity.

Vostok 1 marked his only spaceflight, but he served as backup crew to the Soyuz 1 mission ( which ended in a fatal crash ).

The Druids were not the only political force in Gaul, however, and the early political system was complex, if ultimately fatal to the society as a whole.

Local tetanus is generally milder ; only about 1 % of cases are fatal, but it may precede the onset of generalized tetanus.

As to my personal experience, I will only mention that during my two days sojourn at Atlanta, one Negro was stabbed with fatal effect on the street, and three were poisoned, one of whom died.

Lucien Hubbard offered flying lessons to all, and despite the number of aircraft in the air, only two incidents occurred, one involving Dick Grace, a stunt pilot and the other was a fatal crash of a United States Army Air Corps pilot.

But on 18 November 1991, after thirteen years of legal proceedings, the Paris Assize Court acquitted him of the fatal wounding and unintentional homicide charges, finding him guilty only of unauthorised possession of an M1 Garand rifle.

Since the head wounds inflicted on Olga and Tatiana were instantly fatal, it is likely that Maria, perhaps only unconscious, was the sister who screamed, while Anastasia may still have been able to move and moan.

* Category B, UN 2900-Infectious substances affecting animals only: An infectious substance that is not in a form generally capable of causing permanent disability of life-threatening or fatal disease in otherwise healthy humans and animals when exposure to themselves occurs.

Second, in the play Jocasta has not killed herself at the discovery of her incest-otherwise she could not play the prologue, for fathomable reasons-nor has Oedipus fled into exile, but they have stayed in Thebes only to delay their doom until the fatal duel of their sons / brothers / nephews Eteocles and Polynices: Jocasta commits suicide over the two men's dead bodies, and Antigone follows Oedipus into exile.

They thus sang his fate: Clotho said that he would be noble, Lachesis that he would be brave, but Atropos looking at a brand burning on the hearth and said, “ He will live only as long as this brand remains unconsumed .” When Althaea, the mother, heard this, she leaped from the bed, put out the fatal brand, and buried it in the midst of the palace, so that it shouldn ’ t be destroyed by fire.

On January 3, 1961, the site was the scene of the only fatal nuclear reactor incident in U. S. history.

In 451 AD, Attila the Hun was defeated only with help of the foederati ( who included the Visigoths and Alans ), and the foederati would deliver the fatal blow to the dying nominal Western Roman Empire in 476 AD, when their commander Odoacer deposed the usurper Western Emperor, Romulus Augustulus, and sent the imperial insignia back to Constantinople with the Senate's request that the 81 year old West / East sub-division of the empire be abolished.

Green Iguanas will thrive only in temperatures of to and must have appropriate sources of UVB and UVA lighting, or else their bodies cannot produce vitamin D that promotes calcium absorption, which can result in a metabolic bone disease that can be fatal.

Jackson was nicknamed " Old Hickory " because of his toughness and aggressive personality ; he fought in duels, some fatal to his opponents.

Epileptics are encouraged not to swim in open waters because unexpected fits in such difficult rescue circumstances can be fatal.

However, these high doses cannot be given because they would be fatal to the patient.

The police forces once again attempted to contain the protests, and this time, 42 people were killed in Addis Ababa, including seven policemen, and another of whom later died because of fatal injuries caused by a hand grenade detonation.

The police forces once again attempted to contain the protests and this time forty-two people were killed in Addis Ababa, including seven policemen, and another of whom later died because of fatal injuries caused by a hand grenade detonation.

However, because NMT mimics some symptoms of motor neuron disease ( ALS ) and other more severe diseases, which may be fatal, there can often be significant anxiety until a diagnosis is made.

: namely, the logically fatal tautology of any theory that " there must have been a conspiracy to suppress the truth of de Vere ’ s authorship " just because " the very absence of surviving evidence proves the case.

Dr. Phlox also devised a method of eradicating Borg nanoprobes, but because the method is fatal to humans and nearly so to Denobulans, it has little use.

On 23 September, Isabella and Edward III were informed by messenger that Edward had died whilst imprisoned at the castle, because of a " fatal accident ".

The crossings were doubly treacherous because there were often hidden holes in the river bottom which could overturn the wagon or ensnarl the team, sometimes with fatal consequences.

Leander has been unable to swim across to Hero in her tower because of bad weather ; her summons to him to make the effort will prove fatal to her lover.

Kittens are vulnerable to harm because they like to find dark places to hide, sometimes with fatal results if they are not watched carefully.

In Ancient Greece, instances of pride were termed hubris because of the added connotation that pride was a crime against the gods and would result in fatal retribution.

This condition is about as rare as conjoined twins, affecting one out of every 100, 000 live births and is usually fatal within a day or two of birth because of kidney and bladder complications.

The World Jewish Congress " deplored the fatal shooting of an official of the German Embassy by a young Polish Jew of seventeen ", but " protested energetically against the violent attacks in the German press against the whole of Judaism because of this act " and especially against the " reprisals taken against the German Jews.

Sullivan, however, was not able to host his show in New York City because he was recovering from a near fatal automobile accident.

When ordered to produce the foundation charter of his abbey the abbot refused, apparently because that document would be fatal to his case, and instead played a winning card.

The fatal shots were fired by Orlondo " Baby Lane " Anderson because he was on the side of the car closest to limousine.

At a bar one night, another member of the production gets drunk and tells Cameron that Eli almost killed the helicopter pilot during the fatal accident Cameron caused, because he insisted he keep flying in order to get the shot.

Lambs Slide is so-named because of the Reverend Elkanah J. Lamb's nearly fatal tumble down it.

In Eugene Onegin, Lensky's second, Zaretsky, does not ask Onegin even once if he would like to apologise, and because Onegin is not allowed to apologise on his own initiative, the duel takes place, with fatal consequences.

In the US, Federal health regulators are warning doctors not to prescribe high doses of Citalopram because of the risk of fatal heart complications.

However, these hallucinations are most commonly described as very unpleasant, and recreational use is considered extremely dangerous because of the high risk of unintentional fatal overdose.