Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...What kind of chocolate do you use to spread on your naked body...
...space and moved into a 12,000-sq.-ft. site in Sunnyvale, where they went public. "We thought, 'This is great. We'll never fill this place up,'" recalls Yang. Wrong. Last year, after moving into a 33,000-sq.-ft. floor of a Santa Clara industrial park, they spread onto two additional floors in a neighboring building for a total of nearly...
...proposal: To take the doctor's notes and hospital files on everyone in the country, centralize them, and assign us all tracking numbers. Pros: When you move, you won't have to go through the hassle of transferring your records; plus scientists will be able to follow the spread of contagious diseases much more effectively. Cons: Some 14-year-old hacker might find out about that embarassing gland condition...
...wall it off and avoid it." So termite fighters are looking instead at slow poisons. One of the most promising is hexaflumuron, an insect-growth regulator that interferes with the termites' molting process. Bugs that have ingested the stuff don't notice any effects at first, so they spread it throughout a colony without suspecting they're under attack. Then, when it's time to shed their external skeletons and form new ones--a process that happens every month or so--the new skeleton doesn't form; instead, the old one wraps around the insect, and the termite dies...
Ultimately, scientists expect to learn enough in New Orleans to stop the spread of termites all over the country--although eliminating them completely will probably prove impossible. But for the Beyers family, "ultimately" is too long to wait. They've signed up for an experimental program the pest-control company Terminix is running to test a new pesticide called chlorfenapyr. The chemical was applied last week; in a month, Terminix will be back to see how well it has worked. If the bugs are gone, friends and family will pitch in to help repair the damage--a skill Patrick...