Word: hitches
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...first identified there in 1975. But it is unlikely that the disease really was newly hatched in that area. Decades earlier, on Long Island in New York, a pesky swelling called Montauk knee was causing trouble. In 1908 something indistinguishable from Lyme disease was described in Sweden. Ticks hitch rides not just on deer, mice, humans and other mammals, but also on birds, which helps explain why Lyme disease has been reported in 46 states. (Only Alaska, Arizona, Montana and Nebraska have reported no cases...
Imagine having to hitch a 3,000-mile ride to your job. That is the plight of TWA crew members in Los Angeles who feel stranded by Carl Icahn's decision to sell off the airline's transcontinental routes. Hundreds of Los Angeles-based crews who handle international flights out of New York must sometimes leave a full day early to snare a TWA standby seat. Many employees contend that the commute leaves them too fatigued to do their job, but they see little choice. Why not relocate? "Leave California and move to Queens?" asks an incredulous senior pilot...
...skies," organized the first civil-disobedience demonstrations aimed at halting a U.S. space shot. Their target: NASA's Galileo spacecraft, an interplanetary scientific mission that used as its power source two | radioisotope thermoelectric generators fueled by plutonium. In October 1989, the Galileo launch went off without a hitch, despite the protests...
Jeremy Nye '94 plays the nerdish studio accountant, Linus Pockets, who speaks in incomprehensible alliterations and wears only plaid. Nye pulls off without a hitch tongue-twisters like this one: "Stu-Stu Studio stock has slipped significantly, suggesting a single, sudden smash success is the solitary studio-saving scenario." Unfortunately, his role is limited to rushing onto the stage with periodic bad news...
...virtues. Its byssuses extrude an adhesive that may have commercial value. Its appetite for foul-smelling algae can markedly sweeten the taste of drinking water. Perhaps most admirable of all, the zebra mussel has performed an act of public service by dramatizing the threat posed by tiny organisms that hitch rides around the world. Both the U.S. and Canada are moving to restrict the discharge of ballast water into the Great Lakes, a measure of ecological prudence that is long overdue...