Word: commonized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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College students are inundated with warnings about HIV and chlamydia, but one common and potentially life-threatening sexually transmitted disease (STD) goes largely unnoticed...
John H. Turco, director of Dartmouth College Heath Services, said bacterial meningitis actually exists in two common forms. Meningococcal meningitis causes inflammation of tissue surrounding the spinal cord and brain. The other form, meningococcemia, occurs when the meningococcal bacteria gets into the bloodstream. Turco said that this second form is more deadly...
Thematically divergent, these carefully hand-crafted works have in common a certain highly wrought quality. The artists seem to share a concern for each piece as a made object, for the physicality of their media and for the creation of new effects by the manipulation of materials. Benjamin Cotham's paintings of faces, overglazed many times over by layers of semi-transparent black paint, demonstrate the pay-off of this awareness. His invention of a new way to treat paint allows him to make terrifically eerie pieces; as with a hologram, the image is only visible from certain angles...
Students planning to travel to nations in many parts of Africa, Asia and South America should consult a physician about getting fully immunized to infections common to that region, according to UHS director David S. Rosenthal...
...death of Bibi's father, and of course the Massacre itself are such powerful moments that very real emotion travels between Bibi and Karen and reverberates through the audience. Bibi and Karen seem to be connected through their experiences. Throughout their friendship, they learn that they have much in common, and although the premise is that they are never reunited after their first encounter, they often speak directly and even touch across the geographic and political divide, which thus becomes an imaginary barrier in the human sense...