Word: collectivity
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...laboratories in the top tier of a quiet but elaborate global surveillance network that tracks changes in the world's flu viruses. Almost as an afterthought, Lim sent a sample to Jan De Jong, a virologist at the Dutch National Institute of Health and the Environment who liked to collect unusual strains of influenza. She had never met De Jong, but over the years they had developed a rapport...
Meanwhile, Bjorn Daehlie of Norway was (less surprisingly) becoming the first man in Winter Games history to collect his sixth gold as he struggled through a heavy drizzle to win the men's 10-km classical cross-country event. Yet what really crowned his victory was his own long vigil: he waited and waited at the finish line until the last competitor of all--from Kenya, finishing 92nd, 20 minutes behind him--staggered across...
According to one of the plantiff's attorneys, Max D. Stern, the family waited to file suit in order to collect evidence and prepare to enter a trial...
...suspects told the victim to enter the bank and collect the award. She did, and the suspects fled, "never to be heard from again. It's a classic," Mederos said...
...solve these and other puzzles, many scientists have moved beyond their computer models and headed into the field to collect real data. Last week Martin Ralph, a climatologist with NOAA's Environmental Technology Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., spent 25 hours in a P-3 "hurricane hunter" aircraft, flying into the teeth of a Pacific storm to measure temperature, wind and humidity. His goal: to figure out precisely how such storms build, move and interact with the coastline. Along with data from more than a dozen other NOAA experiments, Ralph's information will be fed back into the computer models...