Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...east end of town, James ("J.J.") and Bonnie Jackson run a shop for gold prospectors. "Lot of folks here got the fever, gold fever," he says. The Jacksons have done well during their first year in business selling gold pans, metal detectors, black-sand magnets and an instrument that separates gold flecks from gravel. ("You run water through it, and the gold walks up the veins into your little catchall. Just walks on up like it has a mind of its own.") "Folks around here like to dig in the dirt...
...cold fusion independently, generating neutrons but not heat. On April 1, two Hungarian scientists said that they had produced neutrons as well. Next Texas A&M scientists showed off an experiment on April 10 that they said had confirmed the heat readings recorded previously by Pons and Fleischmann. Fusion fever was rising now. Georgia Tech said on the same day that its jean-clad researchers had detected neutrons. Maddeningly, no one seemed to be looking for both heat and neutrons in a single experiment, to nail down whether fusion was in fact occurring. But Pons showed no doubt on April...
...mysterious malady is so named because it is not caused by the widely recognized A and B strains of hepatitis viruses. Symptoms include fever, nausea and fatigue and, in chronic cases, cirrhosis of the liver. About 5% of the U.S. population harbors non-A, non-B viruses. The majority of those who are exposed show no symptoms, but of the patients who come down with chronic liver disease, an estimated 10% die within five years. About 150,000 new infections occur each year because of blood transfusions...
...stick with baseball, living and dying with their team, analyzing stats with the rapt anguish of a rabbinical student cramming for a final. To their favorite players they are both sons and fathers -- part hero worshipers, part child psychologists. They become a collective, possessive lover of their idols. Baseball fever: boys catch it, men can't shake...
Where will it all end? Fusion fever continued to rage throughout the scientific world last week, causing many ordinarily cautious scientists to jabber as though the revolution they hope for had already occurred. Cold fusion, the controversial "discovery" announced last month at the University of Utah, was proclaimed by one researcher to be "perhaps as significant as the invention of the wheel." Another said it "may be the most important discovery since fire." Most scientists are still dubious, especially about claims that the experiment produced four times the energy it consumed, but the prospect of virtually limitless energy has generated...