Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...revolution will start small, because so few of us are still interested in politics. There will be a few acts in a few state legislatures by a few small groups. Then, as the television images and stories spread, as they did with Abbie Hoffman's shenanigans 20 years ago, people will rush to join. And while these tactics will draw us with their TV thrills, they will keep us because we will start learning the issues. And, more importantly, they will keep us because we will learn that it is still possible for us to make our voices heard...
Black rock 'n' roll has found sanctuary on alternative and college radio stations and in small rock clubs. So far, its biggest fans have been mainly hip young whites. But the Black Rock Coalition is working to spread the gospel, particularly among young black music lovers. It publishes a newsletter and organizes concerts, including a music festival in Bari, Italy, last June and free performances in playgrounds in black neighborhoods all through the summer. It has also produced its first album, The History of Our Future, an eclectic sampler distributed by Rykodisc that features 10 of the association's bands...
...consequences will be a plague of mushrooms. That is how many fungi reproduce, and this mass of subterranean cytoplasm, known scientifically as Armillaria bulbosa, is one humongous fungus. The mushrooms are aboveground appendages of the real organism, a tangled mass of stringlike tendrils that spread below the surface. Just how far a given fungus can spread has always been open to speculation. Unless scientists happen to dig right where two clearly different fungi meet, there is no easy way to tell where one ends and another begins...
...just what is meant by an "individual"? A patch of grass that spread from a single seed may be considered an individual organism. The same is true with fungi, which, incidentally, are now looked upon as a kingdom separate from plants and animals. Complicating matters is the fact that pieces of the A. bulbosa may have broken off over the millenniums. If so, do the pieces count as one organism or many? There's no agreed upon answer, says Clive Brasier, a British botanist. Insisting on a yes or no, he says, "gets to be a Guinness Book of Records...
Furthermore, AIDS has spread uncontrollably across the country. It is estimated that by the year 2000, 7.5 million South Africans will be HIV positive (South African's population is a little over 32 million...