Word: contacted
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Dr.David S. Rosenthal '59, director of University Health Services (UHS), said about 100 students and staff who came into immediate contact with the infected Lowell House resident were immunized initially...
MOVIES . . . CONTACT: "The movie 'CONTACT'," says TIME's Richard Schickel, "is something like one of those mysterious asteroids that get the astronomers all worked up: a large body of gaseous matter surrounding a relatively small core of solid substance." The movie, adapted from Carl Sagan's novel, is good -- up to a point -- on the inevitable hubbub that follows. Leading it are a national security adviser (James Woods) going nastily paranoid about space invasion; a presidential science adviser (Tom Skerritt) trying to shunt Ellie out of the loop as the government builds the shuttle (plans kindly provided by the aliens...
VIRULENT VIRUS A deadly illness caused by the hantavirus has spread from person to person in Argentina. Until now, scientists thought it was transmitted only by contact with rodent excrement...
...times, furtively darting their eyes from left to right in an almost-reflexive attempt to gauge the status of the person next to them. There are no formal, verbalized rules of etiquette, just a silent code of conduct governing the vast unknown: thou shall not make accidental physical contact with thy seat mate; thou shall not speak; thou shall not meet another's gaze. To do any of the aforementioned would immediately render one "psycho," society's swift condemnation on deviation...
...avoid contact of any sort, the passengers are immersed in their periodicals, which simultaneously serve as diversion, conversation barrier and escape mechanism. All's fair in love, war and commuting. Children use their book bags to reserve the seats next to them, adults use their briefcases to barricade their space from adjacent ones and both young and old huddle near the ends of the rows as if somehow, these coveted seats could offer salvation. In less crowded trains, even stricter codes of propriety are observed. The every-other-seat rule is assiduously practiced as both genders stretch out arms...