Word: infection
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trip laden with symbolism, Gorbachev visited neighboring Finland, a dexterous nation that has maintained friendly relations with Moscow while retaining political and economic independence. "Finlandization" used to be derided as a form of latter-day appeasement that might infect Western Europe; now it is considered a model for the relationship that Poland or Hungary could achieve...
...scientists may have the key to warding off the sniffles. Reporting in the journal Cell last week, two separate research teams announced the discovery of a cell molecule to which rhinoviruses attach themselves. When the cold viruses bind to the molecule, known as the ICAM-1 receptor, they infect the cell...
Ranchers claim that the bison, in addition to damaging fences and depleting food needed by cattle, can infect their herds with brucellosis, a disease that causes cows to abort their calves -- though there are no documented cases of such bison-to-cattle infections. More than 200 bison have been bagged so far this season. Government biologists say the toll will not deplete the park's bison population of 2,700, but animal-rights groups want federal authorities to provide feeding spots for the animals inside the park. "The object is to put a head on somebody's wall," says...
...They're calling [Sudduth and Graham] in not necessarily for their expertise, I think, but to establish whether Morris had the intent to infect federal computers, or was he reckless enough [to allow it and was he expert enough," said George-town law student and technology writer Robin A. Meltzer...
Morris had accidentally instructed the computer to infect every 10th adjacent computer on the Internet instead of every 10,000th, according to Jeffrey I. Schiller, M.I.T. network manager. As a result, the virus tried to spread too quickly and multiple copies of the virus were sent to the same machines, eventually using too much memory and computer time, causing the systems to crash...