Word: rained
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Harvard women's soccer team's game at Hartford, scheduled for Wednesday evening, was cancelled due to rain. The make-up will be on October...
...year older and some things never change. The other day, the lure of e-mail compelled me to trek from Mather to the Science Center. Not realizing that the Freshman Mixer had been moved indoors because of the rain, I was soon stuck in a mob of eagerly socializng first-years doing the Electric Slide. Part of me wanted to get out of there as soon as possible, but part of me remembered how fun all this had been. And that's when I realized exactly what sophomore meant...
Terrence Smith stood in the rain outside Quincy House, pleading with students to vote for Galluccio, his beloved neighbor...
...counterattack: in one wave after another, HIV, Ebola, Marburg virus, Lassa fever, Legionnaire's disease, hantavirus, hepatitis C--in all, at least 30 newly identified pathogens over the past two decades--swooped down upon different population groups. Most of them came out of the newly inhabited and exploited rain forests of Africa and South America, making an inter-species jump from animals to humans...
Humans are, if inadvertently, still giving aid and comfort to the enemy. As people push farther and farther into the tropical rain forests of Africa and South America, the world's great reservoirs of microbial horrors, they come into contact with diseases that have been circulating among animals probably for centuries. And while diseases have been jumping from animals to humans throughout history (hantavirus, AIDS and Ebola are only three recent examples), it was not until this century that the bugs could take advantage of jet-age transportation to leave the jungle and travel to hundreds or thousands of people...