Word: sprung
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Schoolteacher Syabusi is an educated man, fully cognizant of the AIDS threat. Yet even he bristles when asked if he uses a condom. "Humph," he says with a fine snort. "That question is nonnegotiable." So despite extensive distribution of free condoms, they often go unused. Astonishing myths have sprung up. If you don one, your erection can't grow. Free condoms must be too cheap to be safe: they have been stored too long, kept too hot, kept too cold. Condoms fill up with germs, so they spread AIDS. Condoms from overseas bring the disease with them. Foreign governments that...
...which the police now blame on Fathur?no one knew who was responsible or what was the motive. One theory at the time held that the bombings were an attempted coup by the Philippine military. Now Southeast Asian leaders say an al-Qaeda-like organization has sprung up, with the vague but familiar goals of attacking American targets and pushing for further Islamicization of the region?perhaps with hopes of carving out an Islamic state from parts of the Philippines, Indonesia, Brunei and Malaysia. The central figure, they say, is Abubakar. Singapore claims he masterminded the bomb plots it uncovered...
...fear of cell-phone radiation is creating fresh markets for entrepreneurs. Sevin Rosen, the venture-capital firm that launched Compaq Computer, recently pumped $2 million into a California start-up that plans to build low-radiation phones. At the same time, a cottage industry has sprung up to market shielding devices that block out radiation, although most have scant scientific evidence to support their claims of effectiveness...
...major artery supplying water to Cambridge sprung a leak yesterday, leading to a miniature flood on the sidewalk at the corner of Memorial Drive and River Street...
...didn't become Israel's most decorated soldier by acting predictably. He earned his stripes in such daring escapades as the dramatic 1976 hostage rescue at Uganda's Entebbe airport and the assassination of key PLO leaders in distant Arab capitals. Now the plucky little commando appears to have sprung a nasty booby trap on his domestic political foes - by announcing his resignation Saturday, and calling a new election that must be held within two months...