Word: spreading
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DIED Born to devout Texas sharecroppers, Marilyn Clement, 74, dreamed of working as a missionary before choosing to spread a different kind of gospel. She marched beside Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1960s and later devoted her life to health-care reform and social activism...
...start a new one. FAIL Blog, for instance, spawned There, I Fixed It, a catalog of such misguided repair jobs as an airplane apparently patched together with duct tape. They're always searching for new memes - jokes or fads that could slip into the virtual jet stream and spread...
...school day, however, ended in tears. In fact, it never really began. When the orphans arrived at the gates of An Nhon Dong Elementary School, parents who had been informed ahead of time about the new arrivals grabbed their children and fled. As word spread through the neighborhood, more parents hurried to the school to get their children. As the orphans waited together on the playground to learn if they would be allowed inside, several adults loudly let it be known that they would never let their children sit in the same class with them. "We survived the French bombings...
...Medlock and co-author Alison Galvani of Yale University School of Medicine studied mortality data and data of infectious contacts from the influenza pandemics of 1918 and 1957. They then built a mathematical model to determine the best distribution by age for vaccinations, in order to contain the spread of a theoretical pandemic. In their calculations, the most effective policy was to aim first for inoculating children ages 5 to 19 and adults ages 30 to 39. That's because school-age children are such a powerful nexus of flu infection: they get sick, infect one another in the close...
...vaccinate an entire population, you can achieve nearly complete disease control by vaccinating at least the overwhelming portion of it. That's because every inoculated person serves as a sort of firebreak against the virus; surround the disease with enough people who are immune to its spread, and it simply winks out, never reaching the few people who still aren't immune. The Science study offers a chance to get a kind of herd immunity on the cheap by inoculating the super-spreaders first. "As long as there are more than 40 million doses of vaccine, this looks like...