Word: contacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Webster and Shortridge, Hong Kong's many outdoor markets held the key to why the confirmed cases of H5 were spread in such haphazard fashion throughout Hong Kong. In some cases, the CDC team and health-department investigators were unable to prove direct contact with poultry, which suggested that some of the victims caught the virus through contact so casual they simply weren't aware of it. Says Shortridge: "It suggested to me there was a hell of a lot of virus in the environment that we weren't aware...
...virus. Ducks and geese in the markets carried it too--especially worrisome, given their ability to carry infections without outward sign of illness. In the markets, all poultry--ducks, geese, chickens--was killed. The slaughter, according to Shortridge and Webster, removed a substantial reservoir of H5 virus from contact with people...
...these two people who had the clearest window into Tadesse's psychology did not deem it important enough to take preventative action, how could others who merely had transient and brief contact with her be expected...
...usual suspects ? prosecutors familiar with the case ? told the Washington Post of a sudden burst of contact between Jordan and the former intern during December and January: Four meetings, a dozen phone calls and a ride in a chauffeured limo. That's circumstantial, but what the prosecutors claim is that Jordan expended all this energy to find Lewinsky a job at Revlon a mere three days after he learned she was to be a witness in the Paula Jones suit. What this shows is that Whitewater prosecutors appear to be working toward a Jordan indictment, either for suborning perjury...
...President Khatami put out the peace feelers last year, he was reflecting public sentiment," says TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell. "Most ordinary Iranians don't share the leadership's animosity toward the U.S." Still, the conservatives managed to force Khatami to be more cautious in his calls for renewed contact between the two nations. The wrestlers may be the first of a number of American delegations to visit Iran in the near future, but it'll be some time ? and even more burned flags ? before the U.S. reoccupies the embassy it left behind...