Word: hand
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...right to pass the blame. Pathogens like the influenza virus pass like a holiday fruitcake from person to person, but you probably don't think much past the one who gave it directly to you. An infectious-disease expert, on the other hand, would not be satisfied to stop there. What about the person who passed the virus on to your colleague, the one before him and others earlier still? Contagious diseases operate like a giant infectious network, spreading like the latest YouTube clip among friends of friends online. We're social animals; we share. (See the Year in Health...
...1960s, Warren M. Robbins, 85, raised $13,000 and took out a mortgage to buy the former home of abolitionist Frederick Douglass. House in hand, he established the Museum of African Art with work purchased during his travels abroad...
...remembers that as a 13-year-old, he welcomed martial law--because the schools were closed--until he saw his grandmother in tears at the prospect of civil war. "Martial law was a hard blow for Solidarity, and it pushed the country back," he says. "But on the other hand, without Jaruzelski, it all could have ended up in violence." A December 2007 survey showed that 44% of Poles believe the authorities had no choice but to crack down, while 45% condemn the decision...
...company’s Web site, Finagle describes its bagels as boiled and baked in small batches by hand...
...writer the frustrating thing about it is that you can have in your head the words exactly as they need to be, and there’s that awkward gulf between that and what the performer does,” he says.On the other hand, Simon H. Rich ’06-’07—a former president of the Lampoon who is in his second year of writing for SNL—says, “They only put me in front of the camera as a sight gag when they need an awkward-looking, childlike...