Word: bug
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...most exciting short-term benefit of this year's class is that it will provide immediate improvement to the team, which has already been bitten by the injury bug. Co-captain Melissa Johnson is still on the mend from a torn MCL last year, junior Laura Barnard is out with a stress fracture and sophomore Sarah Johnson injured her knee in practice...
...online at a glance and start chatting right away. And they can do so across time zones, oceans and continents. At the stroke of midnight last New Year's Eve, 80 IBM experts from around the world huddled online to monitor the company's defenses against the Y2K bug. "If there had been a crisis," Patrick says, "all the knowledgeable people would have instantly shared their expertise...
...been made before, but not usually with tongue so literally in cheek. Four years later, she made Fly, in which, for 25 minutes, what appears to be a single housefly (actually there were several) is photographed at close range navigating the body of a naked woman. Even when the bug inspects the woman's lips, busies itself at her nipple or ventures between her legs, she's as motionless as a guard at Buckingham Palace. Whatever else Fly might be, it's a weirdly absorbing encounter between two forms of life, one a tireless speck of aggressive curiosity, the other...
PREGNANT PAUSE Doctors in Puerto Rico report that severe morning sickness may be linked to a bacterium known as H. pylori, the same stomach bug that causes ulcers. They found that 89% of pregnant women with intense nausea tested positive for the bacterium, whereas less than 10% of those who never felt sick came up positive. Taking antibiotics during pregnancy is generally a no-no, but women might consider getting screened for H. pylori before trying to conceive...
...journalists cooped up inside the Hotel Koryo - clean and pleasant enough, with good Korean food, Japanese beer and working phone lines. The diplomats staying at the hotel were told in their pre-trip briefing in D.C. that they would be in the part of the hotel that was bugged and had surveillance, while the journalists were in the bug-free tower...