Word: contact
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...Bird flu has already killed 32 of the 44 people infected in Asia this year, and the news isn't getting better. Fortunately the only way the disease seems to spread to humans is through close contact with infected birds, although rare cases of human-to-human transmission have occurred. But if bird flu mutates and gains the ability to transmit as easily as normal flu-and scientists say that is a real possibility-it could trigger a worldwide pandemic similar to that in 1918. That prospect was raised last week, when Dr. Shigeru Omi, the World Health Organization...
...night to go looking for a girl he had a crush on. But Jenkins, as a practical joke, had given him a bogus address, and Parrish wandered the streets aimlessly for hours. He ultimately got picked up in central Pyongyang by police, who suspected he was meeting a spy contact; the leader had to get him out of jail...
...area until 1984 and then pushed into isolated jungles, living off animals and plants. The transition to civilization has been jarring. Born and raised in the jungle, a 25-year-old woman called At said none in the group had ever suffered a serious illness-until they came into contact with other people, when many succumbed to sickness or fevers. Ro'mam Luong, 55, was amazed at the color TV in the government office where the group stayed on their first nights back in Cambodia: "I have no idea what it is. It's very strange. But I like...
...Jude Law), an obituary writer and aspiring novelist, shares a moment of charged visual contact with a beautiful girl as he makes his way to work in London one day. Her name is Alice (Natalie Portman)—a hip, self-assured New Yorker who has just arrived in the city. An accident while crossing the street puts her in the hospital and Dan, although still a stranger to her, remains close by to offer help...
...think there’s something about the abundance of material goods that drives us either way: desire or repulsion. As mom and Savta floated in the former category, I was bouncing around in the latter. We headed towards the open part of the mall and I made eye contact with a hardheaded four-year-old whose mascara’d mother was stuffing his arms into a corduroy jacket. All it took was my empathetic gaze to finally break him down into a teary tantrum...