Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Indeed, some soldiers at the 143rd Battalion's headquarters, a cluster of brick buildings 12 miles from Aberdeen's main post, confessed they were not shocked by the charges. They described a high school atmosphere on base where gossip about sex rustled among the troops. "There's lots of talk about relationships, but it's whispered, not broadcast widely," says Private Xanett Salgador-Hill, 18, a mechanic from Savannah, Georgia. "It's the same as in the civilian world, but people expect more from the military." Private Bashir Gray, 18, has heard the rumors too. "People were saying some...
Each officer will also be assigned responsibility for patrolling a cluster of houses or buildings within a given unit...
...took the delays sportingly, realized she would be earning her pay in space this trip as soon as she crawled into Mir last March, joining the two men she came to know affectionately as her "two Yuris"--cosmonauts Yuri Onufrienko and Yuri Usachev. The Russian station is a cluster of six cramped, camper-size pods, with most of the living space devoted to labs. Personnel sleep in curtained, closet-like enclosures at the end of one pod and exercise with their bodies bungeed into place on treadmills; when it comes time for a shower, they must get by with space...
...deadliest forms of childhood brain cancer--is more than a tribute to the skill of the cancer specialists, or oncologists, who treated him. It is also one of many small but significant mileposts that mark how far medical science has come in its fight against the cluster of diseases collectively known as cancer. The struggle has been long and hard and, unlike work in other medical fields, has produced few really dramatic breakthroughs. But patient by patient, tumor by tumor, doctors are beginning to gain ground. "We may not know how to cure most cancers yet," says Dr. Richard Klausner...
That is how it goes in theory, at least. The hantavirus outbreak is an example of what can happen when everything goes right: a concentrated cluster of cases to catch the attention of doctors; an excellent local public-health system; a world-class lab a few hours away by plane; and quick identification of the microbe, the carrier and the mode of transmission. But the reality, as any military commander knows, is that the best strategy is useless without the resources to implement...