Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people would find a way to use the new communications technology to share their most intimate urges. Sex, as Gerard van der Leun writes in the new computer-hip magazine Wired, "is a heat-seeking missile that forever seeks out the newest medium for its transmission." He cites the spread of printed smut in post-Gutenberg Europe, pornographic pictures in the age of photolithography, X-rated tapes in the video stores and dial-a-porn services on the 900 telephone lines...
Cedric and Frank Garland sure know how to put a cloud over a sunny day. Since 1990 the two brothers and their research associate Edward Gorham, all San Diego-based epidemiologists, have spread a highly unsettling message: liberal use of sunscreens may actually promote a deadly form of skin cancer called melanoma rather than protect people from...
...Americans will suffer from skin cancer, and the incidence is increasing nearly 4% annually. Of the 700,000 new cases that will be diagnosed in the U.S. this year, 80% will involve cells found in the lower layers of the epidermis. These so-called basal-cell cancers develop slowly, spread rarely and are nearly 100% curable. An additional 130,000 skin cancers affect the pancake-shaped cells that form the skin's upper layers. Although highly treatable, these squamous-cell carcinomas grow faster than basal-cell tumors and annually kill 2,300 Americans. Malignant melanoma, which ravages the skin...
...School in California assembled some party favors -- a gift-wrapped condom, a Planned Parenthood pamphlet advocating abstinence and a piece of candy. "We know Prom Night is a big night for a lot of people, sexually," senior Lisa Puryear told the San Jose Mercury News. "We were trying to spread a little responsible behavior." But administrators confiscated the 375 condoms, arguing that the school-sponsored event is no place for sex education...
...troops, thus saving it from a hypothetical Serbian aggression and allowing Bill Clinton to draw a line in the quicksand. Even the Macedonians are laughing. "Why here?" Macedonian Defense Minister Vlade Popovski told reporters. Because "we want to try to confine the conflict ((in Bosnia)) so it doesn't spread to other countries," the President said last week, ignoring the fact that Macedonia hasn't requested U.S. assistance...