Word: spreading
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Epulopiscium is notable for sheer grotesqueness, of course, but it also upsets some long-held scientific assumptions. For one, biologists had believed that bacteria could never be very large because, unlike one-celled animals (such as amoebas), they don't have the internal machinery to spread nutrients through their bodies. Now it appears that some fossilized traces of large microorganisms, which researchers presumed to be from animals, may have come from bacteria instead. If that's true, scientists know less than they thought about the early history of life on earth...
...cold in Alabama (2 degreesF in Birmingham), mountainous snows from North Carolina (50 in. at Mount Mitchell) to New York (43 in. at Syracuse), hurricane-force winds (110 m.p.h. in Franklin County, Florida) -- all were part of the same monster storm system that from March 12 to March 15 spread death and destruction from Cuba, where three died, to the Canadian Maritimes (four killed). Deaths totaled 238, and that did not include 48 sailors missing from vessels that sank off Nova Scotia and in the Gulf of Mexico. Worst tolls: 50 in Pennsylvania, and 44 in Florida, where winds made...
...They turned the issue around," Sayhoun said. "They made it seem as though I were at fault because they claim I spread rumors or caused commotion. I still feel I had a strong basis...
Word of the incident, which took place at 8 p.m. with several students in the area, spread quickly through the Harvard community, as several deans and even President Neil L. Rudenstine were made aware of the situation...
McNally forges a complicated, interlocking structure of relationships. By the end of the book, the initial shock of the suicide has spread through the network of characters and dissipated. The plot appears a mechanical process, divorced from the actions of those whom it surrounds. McNally creates no rapport between the story and the subjects, no common development of scope and substance. The narrative never takes off, never generates its own momentum, never grows--it just plays itself...