Word: detoured
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Twenty years after the first cases of Lyme disease were reported in and around Old Lyme, Conn., the epidemic of tick-borne infections seems to be taking a detour into the twilight zone. Doctors know how to diagnose it--most of the time. They can even cure it--most of the time. Pharmaceutical companies are working on two promising vaccines that could be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration later this year. Biologists have even come up with some ingenious methods for controlling the tick population that carries Lyme. But no one is satisfied, not the victims...
Still, maybe it was a predestined part of his journey--just a detour that had not been anticipated. He has always wanted to act even though his parents urged him to become a doctor...
Write what it smells like; go into the past; follow your nose. This is what you will do as writers. You will plunder the past to explain the present and make the present more intense. Think of stream of consciousness as a detour off the path of the narrative. Go where it takes you, and when you get back, the main road will have changed...
...other parts of his article and I make clear throughout the book. I see the development of multiculturalism, with regret, as an inevitable response to one key failure in the American effort to embrace and assimilate people of all races, and I hope multiculturalism will be a temporary detour in this effort. Nathan Glazer Professor of Education and Sociology Emeritus
...Earhart's failed 1937 journey. Flint will use global positioning satellite technology to pinpoint her location, VHF radio communications to expedite landings and take-offs and an in-cabin computer to communicate via e-mail with school children following her flight on the Internet. Other than a slight detour over northern Africa to avoid political unrest in Sudan, Finch's flight route will follow precisely the path taken by Earhart. Waving breezily to reporters, Finch says she has no jitters about her 29,000 mile flight. The original Earhart flight ended in disaster after 22,000 miles when Earhart...