Word: bacillus
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people worldwide during the next decade. The emergence of drug-resistant strains of the disease and the spread of AIDS have both hampered efforts by health agencies to slow the renewed spread of the consumptive illness. The weakened bodies of AIDS sufferers provide a convenient host for the TB bacillus...
...Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton's technothriller about cloned dinosaurs, the author asked a fairly serious question: Is it wise to let commercial technicians meddle with genetic engineering? It did not require a molecular biologist to work out his answer: Only if you think you can run faster than whatever Bacillus or tyranosaur they manage to hatch...
Lenin could hardly lead a revolution from exile in Geneva, of course, but when he asked Berlin for permission to travel home through Germany, the Germans happily agreed to provide him with a sealed railway carriage (rather like a container for a deadly bacillus) and even allocated secret funds to aid his plans to stop the war. And so, after ten more years of exile, Lenin finally arrived by train at the Finland Station in Petrograd on April 16, 1917. He climbed onto an armored car and began making a speech. "The people need peace. The people need bread...