Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lawyer's Guild Law School chapter, who has worked closely with minority groups on this issue, put it. A segregated faculty at Harvard is not news. The real sort of sexy news is that Black students boycott a white professor." And it was just this "sexy" news story that spread across the nation. The Washington Post, which was the first major paper to break the story, presented the issue as a very clear-cut one of race. The lead of that story read, simply enough. "Two minority student groups at Harvard Law School are urging classmates to boycott a race...
...experiment's opponents fear that if the treated toxin were accidentally released into the atmosphere, it could trigger a diphtheria epidemic. Diphtheria is an often-fatal disease whose spread was effectively wiped out by a vaccine...
...John R. Murphy, associate professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, said his experiment next month would be safe, citing tight laboratory security and the toxins' short lifespan in the atmosphere as factors working against any diphtheria spread...
...quite assuredly that it is new." What makes AIDS especially alarming, says Curran, is that its incidence is rising, from one case a day in the first six months, to two or three cases a day in the past three months. What is more, the epidemic has spread beyond the homosexual community into several other segments of the U.S. population...
Crotti's barnyard brainstorm has already undergone tests at a 31,500-gal. spill in the Mississippi River 20 miles downstream from New Orleans. The oil had spread over a 14-mile area, washing into coves and turning the marshy ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick...