Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wilford spread the ball around efficiently, completing 4-of-5 passes to three different receivers on the drive. Menick, meanwhile, simply overpowered the Rams defense...
Increased education and use of family planning have pushed down fertility rates all over the globe. On the negative side, mortality has been driven up by the spread of AIDS, especially in Africa...
...publicly funded group has mounted a controversial community-wide crackdown on teen sex known as "abstinence-only education." Its proponents argue that giving kids an unambiguous abstinence message--rather than telling them to wait but distributing condoms for when they don't--will curb teen pregnancies, decrease the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) and make for "sexually healthier" adults. And they warn against a strain of human papilloma virus that is linked to cervical cancer--and is not prevented by condoms. Opponents of abstinence-only education, however, call it "erotophobic" and fear it could prevent kids from learning what...
...FLASH No one can predict just how bad this flu season will be, but worrisome signs are cropping up. Among them: folks' getting sick earlier in the year. Six flu outbreaks occurred this summer, in contrast to just the occasional one in summers past. And though it hasn't spread, a new kind of flu virus has appeared in Hong Kong that current shots don't protect against. Be sure--starting around now--to get vaccinated anyway, particularly if you're elderly...
...somewhere beyond the profit motive ought to be the impulse to spread joy. The TS2 directors have that impulse and share it recklessly. Building on the first film's wit and goodwill, they've created vivid new creatures, including one--the pert, hyperventilating Jessie--who is a real doll (batteries not necessary...