Word: infectives
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made many crude, irreversible mistakes. But maybe not. In a country accustomed to the ruler's answering for everything, even burned stew and spilled milk are held against the Czar and are never forgiven. Similarly, shamanism has always been a trait of the Russian national character: we cough and infect everyone around us, but when we all get sick, we throw stones at the shaman because his spells didn't work...
...years scientists doing gene therapy have had to rely on viruses to do their heavy lifting. Doctors would put whatever snatches of DNA they wanted to change into the viruses and then infect their patients with millions of them, hoping that some would hit the target. Unfortunately, the DNA patches would rarely land where they were supposed to, and even when they did, they usually fell out within weeks. A permanent genetic fix always seemed maddeningly out of reach...
Like normal viruses, computer viruses need a host to survive and grow. This ideal host is the promiscuous floppy disk. Exchanging data with any desktop it comes across, the floppies can infect an entire computer lab, campus or the world...
TICK TROUBLE Lyme disease and HGE, another tick-borne illness, can infect a person simultaneously. If Lyme is found, doctors may want to use a drug that also treats HGE, which can be fatal...
...White House himself, is discouraged but not defeated. "We've been stonewalled," griped committee spokesman Paul Clark, but he added, "There's still important material we haven't got" and "700,000 pages of documents to go through." Yet the sense of a lost opportunity is starting to infect the G.O.P. troops. "If the hearings are a success, fine, Thompson gets the credit," said a House leadership aide. "If they sputter and don't produce anything, Thompson gets the blame...