Word: westing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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AILING. DUDLEY MOORE, 64, puckish composer and star of Arthur; of progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), an incurable brain disorder similar to Parkinson's disease; at a rehabilitation center in West Orange...
Then came a break in the case. Scientists at the Fort Collins lab and at the University of California at Irvine, who had scrutinized human tissue, identified the real culprit. It wasn't the St. Louis virus but its West Nile cousin, or something very like it. That would account for the many patients with encephalitis symptoms who had nonetheless tested negative for the St. Louis virus. But it presented a broader mystery. Usually found in Africa, but also responsible for epidemics in the Middle East, Europe and Asia, the West Nile virus had never before been identified...
Thomas Monath, an expert on mosquito-borne diseases, says it could have been carried by someone recently arrived from southern Russia, currently the site of a large West Nile outbreak. If mosquitoes had gorged on his blood, they could have transmitted the virus to birds by biting them in turn--thus starting an infectious cycle deadly for some humans and birds, though never for the carrier Culex pipiens. It's a scenario, says Monath, that's become increasingly common in a jet-setting...
...concert"), and gave her first public performance at age seven. But her budding career hit the skids when her father, a prizewinning virtuoso bass player, was judged a political risk by the authorities. "He was incredible bassist," she says, "but he was so much exposed to the West, he started having problems getting work. Then he fell ill and was refused medical treatment." When Ivan Kotov died at age 35, his teenage daughter, unable to escape the stigma of guilt by association, decided to move to the West. She eventually made her way to the U.S. to study at Yale...
...Lombardi bring to mind a howitzer aimed at a sparrow: this is about a football coach, after all. If Clinton biographer Maraniss had begun by telling us briefly that Lombardi arose from an ethos built on the trinity of church, family and a few years as assistant coach at West Point, that would have been enough for us to appreciate what follows. Because once Lombardi reaches Green Bay and the Packers, the book soars like a game-winning field goal...