Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...party I went to this summer was such a mind-altering experience that I felt a need to spread the joy and warmth I found to all Harvard undergraduates," Krishnaswamy says...
...sanctions, that has left Iraqis hunting daily for food. His police apparatus has reasserted its grip since the war, so citizens harbor few doubts that Saddam is still in charge. But he may have cause to worry about his 400,000-man armed forces. Kurds and other opponents have spread stories of anti-Saddam moles within the armed forces, particularly those stationed far from Baghdad. "I think a substantial portion of the military is dissatisfied with him," says a U.S. government expert on Iraq. By creating a crisis, Saddam is able to keep his army on alert...
...racial issue. "Racial inequality in the U.S.," it reads in part, "is pre- eminent among the festering social problems . . . upon which the epidemic feeds." The results of inequality include poor health care, inferior education and, for some, a collapse into injection drug use -- all of which help AIDS to spread. The commission's solutions: more community-based health services and greater minority inclusion in the testing of new treatments. The study warned, "For these communities, disproportionate representation raises the fear that they will be saddled with the disease -- blamed for it, stigmatized by it and left to deal with...
...news of Riina's arrest spread through Palermo last week, some residents expressed jubilation, but most had nothing to say. "It's none of my business," grunted a young man on a motorcycle. "Knowing too much about that stuff is dangerous." It will remain so, even with Riina behind bars. At least five members of the Cupola are still at large. According to some sources, they long ago sketched out an agreement on how to divide the shepherd's fields and flock...
WHEN CHARLES ALCOCK PEERS UP at the nighttime sky, he wonders not at the luminous stars but at the blackness that enfolds them. The Milky Way, Alcock knows, is like a sprinkling of bright sequins on an invisible cloak spread across the vastness of space. This cloak is woven out of mysterious stuff called dark matter because it emits no discernible light. A sort of shadow with substance, dark matter dominates the universe, accounting for more than 90% of its total mass. Yet scientists, struggling to interpret just a few sparse clues, know virtually nothing about it. The dark matter...