Word: spreading
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...professor at Catholic University of America in Washington, whose new book, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume II (Doubleday; $35), represents the latest scholarly attempt to meld science and faith. Too often over the centuries, Meier admits, the Catholic Church was taken in by charlatans. When reports spread of statues weeping or crosses bleeding or Jesus appearing on a tortilla, the church is often slow to respond, fearful that the search for a sign will distract from the hard work of faith. "There is a fascination with macabre aspects of religion," Meier explains, "but fascination is the enemy...
...Rumors spread quickly last week that the Tutsi-dominated army was about to attack Kamenge and seven major refugee camps that provide shelter to 200,000 Hutu from Rwanda. Tutsi paramilitary groups may have spread the rumors themselves to help speed their segregation plan. Everyone in Burundi is still in shock after the massacres in Rwanda last year, in which more than 500,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsi, were slaughtered...
Midnight. A 40-ft. boat pulls up, and an anguished murmur goes out from the 200 refugees on shore-the craft is too small. The buscones begin yelling and waving their machetes. Over two grueling hours, they crowd 111 people aboard the vessel; each passenger's legs spread to accommodate the person in front of him. When the voyage finally starts, there is no room to move. The ship is leaky and reeks of gasoline. Passengers vomit. Others sleep. By the time the sun rises, everybody is stiff and tense...
...going to have some students who arewell-versed in all of the resources of Harvard,and can spread these resources to their friends,"said Weitzner...
Once malignant cells have spread beyond their original location, however, traditional chemotherapy is usually much less successful at producing a cure. In an attempt to develop a treatment for these more advanced cases, the researchers at Dana-Farber have been experimenting with levels of antitumor agents that are much higher than those normally prescribed. In Lehman's case, the treatment was to last four days, and the amount given during each 24-hour period was supposed to be barely shy of lethal. The physician in charge of figuring out her daily dosage, whose identity has not been released, apparently made...