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...patients. When 70% or so of a population has immunity - what epidemiologists call herd immunity - a virus is considered burned out: it can't spread further because there is almost no one left to infect. In the meantime, hospitals are trying to prevent the disease from taking root by isolating patients and using gowns, masks, goggles and gloves religiously - techniques that so far have proved extremely effective at preventing transmission...
...We’d like to see this really take root, to see [Scheib] living in the houses, eating in the dining halls, visiting the classrooms,” Megan said...
Some projects, like the Dr. Seuss mural in the kitchen, were probably a planned group effort. Others—like the cheddar-cheese labels in the shape of a flower that stick to the fridge or the lumpy root displayed on the mantle—seem to have been done purely on the spur of the moment...
Opus Dei crossed the Atlantic and took root in Chicago in 1949. Since then, according to Opus Dei’s Office of Communications, it has spread its “apostolic activities” into about 35 cities in the United States. Internationally, the Work is known foremost for its members’ conservative political influence, according to the British journalist Robert Hutchinson, author of Their Kingdom Come: Inside The Secret World Of Opus Dei, and a reporter for The Guardian...
...first and only Opus Dei priest to operate as the Catholic chaplain at Harvard took this post in 1954, just five years after the group had taken root in Chicago...