Word: sneak
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Latency is a characteristic common to all members of the troublesome herpes family. Herpes zoster, which causes chicken pox, sometimes hides in nerve cells, where no drug or antibody can reach it. Years after the pox attack, usually in middle or old age, zoster can sneak out and cause excruciating attacks of shingles. The Epstein-Barr virus, a herpes family member that causes infectious mononucleosis, follows a similar strategy, though its hiding place is not in the nerves but in the B cells, the very cells that make antibodies to viruses. In contrast to the dormant staying power of herpes...
Harvard could sneak into a first-place tie if Penn loses to Princeton this Saturday and defeats Cornell in that showdown (assuming, still, that the Crimson bests the Quakers). Alternately, the Crimson could tie for the Ivy crown if Cornell loses its next two games and then defeats Penn...
...Soviets agreed to retire within five years a significant portion of their large, hydra-headed ICBMs, including their notorious "heavy" SS-18s. Those are the most worrisome of the missiles in their arsenal, since they have the combination of accuracy, speed and destructive capability to carry out a sneak attack. Numerical reductions alone do not necessarily strengthen the nuclear peace. What is important about the outcome at Reykjavik is not so much the dramatic-sounding goal of a 50% cut across the board, which would probably prove illusory in a final agreement, but the Soviets' implicit admission that heavy ICBMs...
...Trinidad residents have actually seen the Americans, camped out at the air base in tents. Washington officials, concerned that the sight of armed soldiers might cause problems, have ordered Trinidad off limits. When the G.I.s need fresh bread, three Hispanic-American soldiers change into civvies and sneak into town in an unmarked Chevy van. "We were ordered to stay away," says Gerald Carroll, 29, a Blackhawk helicopter pilot from Beespring, Ky. "They said it was like Tombstone, Ariz., out there -- people running around the streets with guns...
...atmosphere, blotting out the sun for months or years, and causing mass extinctions of life--including, many believe, the dinosaurs. Of the known larger earth crossers, none seem to pose a threat in the near future. But, says Shoemaker, "until we have tracked all of them, something could sneak...