Word: spread
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Sims spoke about the role of Christianity in his life, hoping to increase awareness on campus and spread the gospel. He preached to onlookers, "God fulfills my every need...
...wicked witch and everyone jumped up from hiding to do a dance. "People are turning out because of the Internet--they don't have to be mobilized," says Beck. One motivator, oddly, is nostalgia, an emotion that the Internet accelerates. Events in Seattle cast an afterglow that continues to spread in the retelling. Kelly Vaughan, 20, a senior at Chicago's DePaul University, recalls sitting at her computer last November poring over e-mail accounts of the frontline action. She instantly relayed the news to a list of about 100 other activists, who thrilled at each new shred of information...
...life thanks to Chick's, that is, Bellow's, comic observations on the passing scene. Here are French waiters "working like acrobats" at a dinner Ravelstein throws for Chick at an exclusive Paris restaurant. Here is Chick on Ravelstein's notoriously messy eating habits: "An experienced hostess would have spread newspapers under his chair." Here is Ravelstein amused, laughing "like Picasso's wounded horse in Guernica, rearing back." Such indelible impressions are the stuff of art, not gossip...
...beginning of the year. A large e-mail collective allowed them to share ideas and dilemmas with fellow activists around the world. Tasks ranged from crucial fund raising to communicating with the "corporate media." Caravan tackled how to get affinity groups into town and use the trip to spread the Mobilization's message. Permitted Action organized the legal rallies (as opposed to civil disobedience-or direct action). Logistics faced the dilemma of finding as many as 30,000 places for people to sleep...
...would have to spend its entire medical budget on providing the drug cocktails. But AZT is a lot more within their reach. And scientists fear that attempting to resurrect the credibility of skeptics such as Duesberg sends a message that could prove disastrous to education efforts to stop the spread of the virus in South Africa. "If the problem with supplying people with AZT is financial, that needs to be said up front," says Gorman. "But for a government to be seen questioning whether HIV actually causes AIDS is extremely dangerous, because it twists people's minds...