Word: mixes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...question often phrased, "Will the AIDS virus spread to the 'general population'?" is really a poorly stated mix of two other questions. First, what are the characteristics of a population that can sustain infection with the AIDS virus? And second, who--besides gay men and intravenous drug users--shares these characteristics...
...focusing on the Conrail train crew. Who deliberately disabled an annoying whistle in the locomotive that would have warned of the danger? Why was a bulb missing on a critical cab signal light? The most important long-term question: Why are freight and high-speed passenger operations allowed to mix in the nation's busiest transportation corridor...
Many plant lovers are also plant killers: they never quite find the right mix of light and water to keep their houseplants alive. Weyerhaeuser, the Tacoma, Wash.-based forest-products company, believes this problem may now be solved. Last week the firm began selling plants, trees and flowers that have been put into a kind of permanent "sleep." Weyerhaeuser owns the North American rights to the treatment, in which nontoxic preservatives are injected into the plants. The process, which also permits the use of dyes to transform green plants into red ones, has been available on a limited basis...
...Europe lie along a prime trafficking route. In Communist Yugoslavia, which is not part of the Soviet bloc, 40% of those convicted of narcotics smuggling are foreigners. In Czechoslovakia, potentially addictive drugs are readily available: more than 90 sedatives and pain killers can be bought without a prescription. Users mix the drugs in water to produce a cocktail called pernaik (literally, gingerbread...
...drama in Selma in March 1965 was the culmination of a decade of civil rights activism, a decade chronicled in a remarkable new TV documentary, Eyes on the Prize. The six-week PBS series, produced by Henry Hampton and debuting on Jan. 21 in most cities, uses a mix of historical footage and fresh interviews with participants to recount the major events that followed the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. Names and episodes parade by like battles in a familiar military campaign: Rosa Parks' refusing to relinquish her seat on a Montgomery bus, nine black students' trying...