Word: spreading
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...town of Busia, which spills across the border with Kenya. Legend has it that the passenger bicycle operators used to call, “border, border” to communicate as they ferried their customers across. Over the years, the “boda boda” phenomenon has spread throughout the country as an independent and unregulated transit system...
...retreat from the inflammatory words that he uttered in judgment of the Cambridge police department after Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested there, sparking a national debate about race in America. Though the discourse about the arrest, its aftermath, and the realities of race problems in the country spread far and wide, Obama thought that a simple gesture might soothe the ire of the affair—an invitation to relax over a beer...
...additional planes would be a waste of money during the recession. "Talk about the wrong message at the wrong time," Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri said. "While American families are tightening their belts there is no way we should be buying extra executive jets." The anger had clearly spread. "Lawmakers justifiably pilloried the auto industry CEOs for flying on corporate jets," said Steve Ellis of the nonprofit group Taxpayers for Common Sense. "But now a few months later they are stuffing hundreds of millions into the defense budget for their own jets while the rest of America is trying...
...living through a pandemic right now, but we don't yet know if the H1N1/09 virus--the new official name for what was first called swine flu--will sear the history books or merely strike us a glancing blow. In just a few months, H1N1/09 has spread to nearly every country in the world, infecting so many people that the World Health Organization has officially stopped counting. In nations where it is already winter, like Argentina, H1N1/09 has caused billions of dollars in damage, and China is quarantining foreigners suspected to have the flu. In the U.S., the virus...
...make people healthier. As a peer sex educator employed by Henry Street, he journeys around New York City to give workshops on HIV/AIDS. He takes his job seriously. When I remarked that his workshops might save a life, he replied quickly: "Probably more." (His message, he said, would spread fast...