Word: webster
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...certain age--somewhere between Madonna and Britney--your memories of high school or college probably include profound, intense late-night conversations that went something like this: "Dude! Remember Lite-Brites? Remember Webster? Remember Frankie Goes to Hollywood...
...numerous migratory-waterfowl deaths due to H5N1 in Hong Kong's Penfold and Kowloon parks. Mysteriously, when further screenings of migratory birds were conducted immediately after, no H5N1 was detected. "Did birds from Hong Kong, which nest in Siberia and North Korea, somehow spread the virus elsewhere?" asks Rob Webster, a pioneering expert in animal influenzas. "That's a frightening possibility...
...American mentor, Dr. Robert Webster of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., a pioneer in establishing the zoonotic origins of many influenzas, says, "The research is solid, but still, Yi has certainly stuck his neck way out there on this one." Yi, as usual, is dismissive of any doubts. Back in Hong Kong, he explains how the virus found in other animals such as badgers is genetically less similar to the strains found in humans, before vowing that culling civets "will break the chain of infection...
...mentor, Rob Webster of St. Jude's Hospital in Memphis and a pioneer in establishing the zoonotic origins of many influenzas, says, "The research is solid, but still, Yi has certainly stuck his neck way out there on this one." Yi, as usual, is dismissive of any doubts. Back in Hong Kong, he explains how the virus found in other rodents such as badgers is genetically less similar to the strains found in humans, before vowing that culling civets "will break the chain of infection...
Each story begins with a humorous definition of the title, modeled on the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary. The stories are cringe-worthy, hilarious and occasionally end happily...