Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...early 1980s, David made his own move into the wild. For a pittance he bought a 30-acre spread at Terlingua Ranch, a grandly named stretch of bare-bones, no-nonsense privacy among the mesquite and greasewood of the Chihuahuan desert, where lizards and diamondback rattlers are the nearest neighbors. To a few friends, he was even known jokingly as "Henry David"--as in Henry David Thoreau, the literary patron saint of nature lovers and solitary souls. He took a passionate stand against paving the two-lane road into Terlingua Ranch. "We both worried about the destruction of mankind from...
...COLE, a Los Angeles-based correspondent who has followed the Oklahoma City story from its awful beginning, had a rare 2 1/2-hour interview with accused bomber Timothy McVeigh last week. "Part of his lawyer Stephen Jones' strategy is to counter the negative rumors that have been spread about Tim and to get another view in print," says Cole. "McVeigh wanted to talk to TIME because it reaches a world audience." Cole found him upbeat and cordial but frustrated by the way he's treated in prison. "The petty harassment seems to be affecting his whole outlook," says Cole, aware that...
...MORNING OF APRIL 15, 38,500 worshippers from all over the world will descend upon the tiny town of Hopkinton, Massachusetts. In a bizarre rite, they will shed most of their clothes, spread petroleum jelly over the more sensitive parts of their bodies and affix little timekeepers to their shoelaces. Then, as the appointed hour of noon approaches, they will either stand in line at one of the 750 portable toilets or, much to the chagrin of Hopkinton's 10,000 regular residents, go natural. At the report from a gun, they will try to race 26 miles...
Drunk driving--and liver disease--should be enough to deter people from alcohol. Research on rats indicates that even one binge may raise the risk that undiagnosed cancer cells will spread. Rats injected with ALCOHOL AND CANCER cells grew more tumors than abstemious ones...
Owing mostly to mammography, the number of women diagnosed with tiny, noninvasive tumors in the breast's milk duct has quadrupled since 1983. As many of these tumors never spread dangerously beyond the duct, researchers are concerned that women who opt for a MASTECTOMY may be undergoing unnecessarily radical surgery...