Word: strains
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Both history and the river set the Egyptian apart from the desert Arabs, who are Semites. By contrast, a Hamitic strain prevails in the blood of Egypt's river people. Outsiders often have difficulty distinguishing a Syrian from a Jordanian, or either from a Lebanese. But an Egyptian stands out. His Arabic accent is different, and his speech is peppered with odd words, some dating from the pharaohs, some borrowed from visiting?or conquering?Europeans. Although Egypt is a predominantly Muslim land with a large Coptic minority, its customs differ from those of its Islamic neighbors. In Saudi Arabia...
...Asia as it has appeared in Hong Kong.) For obscure reasons, the Siberia-Manchuria border and nearby areas are suspected of having been the spawning ground of almost all, if not all, epidemic-causing influenza viruses. This region has been indicted as the birthplace of the notorious A-2 strain of Asian Flu that swept the world in 1957-58. The offspring and collaterals of that virus remain the principal causes of flu outbreaks around the globe...
...strain currently savaging the Soviet Union, A/USSR/77, is closely similar to an old oldtimer, the A-1 flu, which was the dominant strain from 1947 to 1957. During that period, people in most countries were exposed to this variety and thus acquired some immunity to A1. But all those born after 1957 cannot be expected to have any immunity...
Disease detectives at the World Health Organization (WHO) in Geneva, which maintains branches in scores of countries, have received laboratory specimens of the 1977 A-l strain. Several laboratories, including those at the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, are testing them for degrees of mutation. New vaccines must be developed. They can probably be put into production soon enough to be ready for use by April...
...happy cog in the industrial machine, even if he were well-greased. Toffler attributes modern man's problems to natural difficulties in adapting to a highly modernized world far different from the primitive, less-frenetic world that man evolved in. "Just as the body cracks under the strain of environmental overstimulation, the mind and its decision processes behave erratically when overloaded," Toffler claims. In his book, Future Shock. Toffler goes...