Word: spore
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sick Spore...
...Bears. 10 Brookline St., Cambridge. 492-0082. Thinking Fellers Local Union #282, Sun City Girls, and Cul DeSac on Thursday, Nov. 5 (18+). Laughing Hyena, Smack Mellon, Spore, and Gaunt on Friday, Nov. 63. Olivz, Disco King, Riley's Field, and Falling August on Saturday, Nov. 7. P>Boy Meets Girls. Dress to impress. Cash bar. Sponsored by Harvard-Radcliffe Korean Student Association. Boston Marriott in Cambridge located at the Kendall Square T. Friday, Nov. 6 from 9 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. $10 at the door; $8 in advance...
...other awful things no one has yet dreamed up. If tin-pot dictators and drug cartels get hold of the technology, they will become increasingly troublesome. Even a cheap, radio- controlled model airplane can do a lot of damage if, say, it is carrying a genetically engineered anthrax spore...
Biological agents could be a different problem. Iraq is believed to possess some of them, including typhoid, cholera and botulin toxin. In open air, most of those die within hours. So does anthrax, an infectious, spore-forming bacterium that Saddam is also believed to possess. But if spores of anthrax penetrate the ground, they can survive in a dormant state for decades, waiting for new victims...