Word: contacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were a true humanities building, you would have art history and philosophy and music, but that would be an ideal world," Damrosch said. "If that was really what they had in mind, they would have put the departments we had the most contact with in there," such as the history department, Damrosch says...
...decision handed down in late June, the jury ruled that Ostrowski "intentionally cause[d] a harmful or offensive physical contact with" Battenfield. But the jury also established that the physical contact did not cause injury to Battenfield...
...years before making an assault on humans. Brazilian doctors sent samples to Yale, and a month ago the scientist became infected when he accidentally broke a container holding the virus. Health officials point out that it is not easily passed between humans, but some 80 people who came into contact with the man have been under observation...
...changes help microbes move from animals to humans. Lyme disease, a bacterial infection, was largely confined to deer and wild mice until people began converting farmland into wooded suburbs -- which provided equally good habitats for the animals and the bacteria-infested ticks they carry and also brought them into contact with large numbers of people. The mice that transmit the hantavirus often take refuge in farmers' fields, barns and even homes. Air-conditioning ducts create a perfect breeding ground for Legionnaires' disease bacteria. Irrigation ditches and piles of discarded tires are ideal nesting spots for the Aedes aegypti mosquito, carrier...
...viruses keep arising to challenge the vaccine makers. They may have gone undetected for centuries, inhabiting animal populations that have no contact with mankind. If people eventually encounter the animals -- by settling a new part of the rain forest, for example -- the virus can have the opportunity to infect a different sort of host...