Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They camp on doorsteps, in schoolyards, in cemeteries, in fields so crowded that people sleep standing up. Men and women search for fresh water only to find a thick, slimy brew so fouled by human waste that it does more to spread disease than quench thirst. For miles around, the trees have been disappearing, fed into pitiful cooking fires. If the refugees could burn corpses, there would be fuel enough for weeks...
...most determined fighters in the camps are the medical commandos of the International Red Cross and Doctors Without Borders, the French relief agency that dispatches physicians and instant field hospitals to the world's most vicious war zones. They are fighting the spread of one killer after another: cholera, dysentery, measles, even, some U.N. workers fear, bubonic plague...
...Jupiter's atmosphere, since the planet's familiar stripes can be seen through them. Astronomer Heidi Hammel of M.I.T. says the collisions will provide an opportunity to study the winds above Jupiter's cloud tops. "The mark left by the first impact is already starting to be spread around," she observes. There are also hints of seismic waves -- ripples thatmay have traveled all the way to a dense layer of liquid hydrogen thousands of miles down and then bounced back up to the surface, creating rings half the size of the planet's visible face. These waves may offer clues...
...other in a small, remote pocket of central Africa, is a fairly recent human acquisition. Not so very long ago, before communications satellites and attendant technologies wired the world, the news about what happened on Jupiter and along the eastern border of Zaire last week would have spread, if at all, largely by print or word of mouth...
Gump has warmed the collective heart of moviegoers; they spread the word, command their friends to go. They storm music stores for the two-CD album, featuring 32 songs from the rock era. They snap up copies of Winston Groom's 1986 novel, on which the film was based, and copies of Gumpisms: The Wit and Wisdom of Forrest Gump, a pocket-size book of aphorisms from the novel. Then they run back to the theater to relive the experience. "It makes you look at things in a better way than you used to," says W. Bart Edwards, a Gainsville...