Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months, thanks to anonymous donors who would match their gifts. New Era would keep only the interest earned during the search. It sounded too good to be true, especially since the mysterious benefactors were known only to Bennett. But when he delivered on his early promises, the news spread and investments in New Era increased exponentially; last year it rivaled the Rockefeller Foundation in its largesse (total: $100 million). Cathryn Coate, executive director of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, says, "The word on the street was that Bennett was a super credible man, impeccable. You'd hear things like...
...breath, worried that another horror would occur before police built their case against Aum. On May 5 a cleaning woman in Tokyo's sprawling Shinjuku station found a hydrogen-cyanide gas bomb before it went off. The device had been placed near a ventilation duct that would have spread the gas quickly. It was potent enough to have killed 10,000 people...
...bombing is Act II of the Waco tragedy. Act III will follow the "politics of escalation" because militias are the new Viet Cong to be rooted out of their enclaves. The government has not yet admitted to itself that it is already infected with a militaristic virus that has spread to many of its concerned citizens...
...around the world, but especially in the U.S., people sensitized to Ebola's horrors by a spate of books and movies-Richard Preston's chilling best seller The Hot Zone; the TV movie Robin Cook's 'Virus'; the film Outbreak, starring Dustin Hoffman-wondered nervously whether the disease would spread out of Africa...
...jungle in the past few decades; others include Lassa and Marburg in Africa, and Sabia, Junin and Machupo in South America. But the most insidious of all, of course, is the AIDS virus, HIV. It probably originated in Africa as well, but unlike Ebola, it was ideally suited to spread around the globe. It kills so slowly and leaves victims without symptoms for so long that they can infect many others before dying...