Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...news spread pretty fast," junior defensivetackle Ernest Green said. "Most people--except forthose really worried about finals--know...
...Word spread from the captains to the rest ofthe team yesterday afternoon. Three of the fournon-captains contacted by the Crimson said theyhad heard the official news...
...states, from Oregon to Texas. At first, no one knew why so many men and women -- often young and otherwise healthy -- were dropping dead. But months of swift and skilled medical detective work have confirmed the cause of the outbreak -- and provided hope that it will not spread farther...
...moment. The death rate has dropped from 60% of victims to 35%, and only three cases were reported in the Four Corners region in the past month, none of them fatal. Increased public awareness and a drop in the deer-mouse population may have helped stem the spread of the disease. But researchers fear that cold weather will cause mice to seek shelter inside houses, exposing people once again. So a major multilingual public-information campaign, set in motion in the spring, will continue. And in January Army scientists will begin testing a vaccine developed to fight the Asian version...
...Internet, for those who haven't been hanging out in cyberspace, reading the business pages or following Doonesbury, is the mother of all computer networks -- an anarchistic electronic freeway that has spread uncontrollably and now circles the globe. It is at once the shining archetype and the nightmare vision of the information highway that the Clinton Administration has been touting and that the telephone and cable-TV companies are racing to build. Much of what Bell Atlantic and Time Warner are planning to sell -- interactivity, two-way communications, multimedia info on demand -- the Internet already provides for free. And because...