Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...quickly enveloped the city's railway station, where beggars were huddled against the chill. In minutes, a score had died and 200 others were gravely ill. Through temples and shops, over streets and lakes, across a 25-sq.-mi. quadrant of the city, the cloud continued to spread, noiselessly and lethally. The night air was fairly cool (about 60° F), the wind was almost calm, and a heavy mist clung to the earth; those conditions prevented the gas from dissipating, as it would have done during...
...there will be compensation for the shortened lunch break: employees who now work from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. will be able to leave their jobs an hour earlier. If that trade-off works in Peking, the idea could spread to other cities and to nongovernment organizations where the midday rest is also a tradition. However, the rite of xiuxi may have become too ingrained to be rooted out so easily. Says one Peking writer: "The directive won't change much. It's like operating on a finger to cure an ulcer...
Carpet knotting was introduced to India in the 15th century. The weaver's art took root and quickly spread through the subcontinent. Masterpieces from Indian looms decorated the palaces of Mughal emperors but remained obscure to the West until the 1851 Crystal Palace Exhibition in London. The result: a profitable European market was opened, production increased to meet demand, and, inevitably, standards and quality declined. Erwin Gans-Ruedin's Indian Carpets (Rizzoli; 318 pages; $85) is a particolored object lesson in how art is overtaken by commerce. Carpets and rugs from the 16th and 17th centuries demonstrate...
Other professional sports may spread throughout the calendar, but to baseball there is still a season. While waiting, bereft, for it to begin again, the true fan will find no brighter winter solace than Base ball (Abrams; 160 pages; $35). The 133 color shots by former SPORTS ILLUSTRATED Photographer Walter looss Jr. catch all the right action, from Maury Wills airborne on the way to second to Nolan Ryan throwing smoke. But in many ways the photographs are more striking when they turn aside to the game's quieter images...
...there a cent since the two-month old strike began. The Yale corporation faces great and growing pressure from the thousands of faculty and students who bear that brunt of the strike but are nonetheless without a voice in settling the dispute. The union's case has received wide-spread coverage in the media, and the case they've made is a very strong one. Yet despite' forceful criticisms, Yale seems intent on starting down the public outrage...