Word: infectivity
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First Love. Macdonald dexterously amasses Implausibly complex evidence. Happily, this book is stripped of the ponderous gothic ruminations that began to infect Archer's thinking several novels ago. Even under the influence of his first love affair in years, the detective manages to toe the line between world-weariness and sentimentality. If The Blue Hammer does not rank with Macdonald's best, the blame can be laid partially to earlier successes. The author's formula has by now entered the public domain. Not only do his characters seem to know this-and to act out their parts...
...disease may force Washington to change his orders. For even though the spread is sometimes worsened by the haphazard inoculation of soldiers, the Army's own chief physician, John Morgan, insists that "wherever inoculation has once had a fair trial, those prejudices, that are apt to infect vulgar and weak minds, soon vanish." Thus the solution to Washington's problem may be not to forbid the treatment but to isolate and then inoculate every soldier in his Army...
...joining it to other substances to form compounds necessary for plant growth. Most other plants must obtain their nitrogen from natural and man-made fertilizers. But scientists are seeking to give more plants this nitrogen-fixing ability. At Utah's Brigham Young University, biologists are attempting to "infect" other species of plants with rhizobia. Scientists in England have isolated the segment of the rhizobial DNA that controls the nitrogen-fixing capability. Now they and other scientists are trying to incorporate this gene into the genetic material of plants like corn. These and other efforts to give grain plants...
...pupil. I will never find the kind of pedagogue I had in Pushkin," he says. "He was such a pure and simple character that it is hard to talk about him in simple words. He was like somebody who stepped out of an icon. Pushkin had an ability to infect you with such a love for dance that you almost became obsessed with it. It is almost like a disease." Like all great teachers, he had an inspired ability to simplify. Says Baryshnikov: "He taught the most logical series of steps and movements that I have ever seen...
Although Americans are particularly chastened by their spiraling inflation, having so long considered themselves immune from it, what is happening in the U.S. is only one manifestation of a larger, more virulent strain of worldwide inflation. Like some medieval plague, inflation today is sweeping across national borders to infect almost every country at the same time. And the consequences of the international spiral go far beyond economics: they include a sharpening of social divisions and a shaking of values, as inflation rewards speculators while penalizing thrift. The ultimate threat is that inflation will eventually weaken confidence in democratic governments...