Word: leak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also important not to give TPA to someone who is suffering from a hemorrhagic, or bleeding, stroke, since in that case clotting is beneficial: it plugs up the offending leak. Luckily, CAT scans can easily distinguish between strokes that are caused by bleeding and those caused by clots...
Less risky bugs are studied in the biosafety-level 1 (BSL1), 2 and 3 labs. The nastiest microorganisms, though, are in BSL4. The entire lab is kept at negative air pressure, so if a leak somehow develops, air will flow in rather than out. Researchers generally work in pairs; if one is inadvertently exposed to a microbe, the other can take action. They wear airtight suits hooked directly to a source of clean air. There is no eating, drinking or even going to the bathroom anywhere within BSL4. On the way out, everyone takes a chemical decontamination shower inside...
...members were soon to deteriorate even further. On July 9, The Crimson ran an article naming the five candidates up for the position of HDS director--information which was not supposed to be made public. Dean Lewis strongly suggested that the students on the search committee were responsible for leaking the list. Even though he admitted he had no evidence that they were responsible for the leak, Lewis subsequently wrote in an e-mail obtained by the Crimson that "the publication in The Crimson of the names...has undermined, in the eyes of some, confidence in the wisdom of giving...
...what is really telling is the manner in which he jumped unabashedly to the conclusion that the student members of the committee were responsible for the leak, and then continued on to chastise them. The fact that Lewis sent the aforementioned e-mail a mere day after The Crimson printed the leaked information is indicative of how willing he is to pin blame on students. Since Lewis himself admitted to having no evidence against the students, his actions were both immature and counterproductive. We would expect the Dean of Harvard College, when faced with such a situation, to privately contact...
...shift in attitudes was immediate. The day Explorer 3.0 hit the streets, Netizens began to create an approving buzz. And from around the Net, where Netscape had long trumpeted its 85% market share, word began to leak back that Microsoft browsers were accounting for 30%, then 40% and by last week 60% of the hits on some servers. Though Netscape still indisputably has the larger proportion of browsers, Microsoft reported that more than a million people downloaded Explorer 3.0 in its first week online, overwhelming the company's specially beefed-up servers. And while Netscape is starting to charge more...