Word: spread
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...then closed at an unspectacular $25.12. Just when Buy.com chief executive Gregory Hawkins should have been popping champagne corks, he was hunkering down in an emergency session with his techies. "I'm not going to kid you," says Hawkins. "My stomach did drop." That sinking-stock feeling spread the next day as the hack attack contributed to a market-wide sell...
FERTILE FINDINGS Young women found to have ovarian cancer routinely have their reproductive organs removed to try to stem the disease's spread. The consequence: the abrupt onset of menopause, eliminating any chance for future childbearing. Now researchers say it may be possible to preserve these women's fertility. A six-year study shows survival rates among those with early-stage ovarian cancer are about the same whether doctors take out all the reproductive organs or keep the womb and unaffected ovary--and fertility--intact...
...pompous English import who bloviated in his Porcupine's Gazette on behalf of Hamilton and his law-and-order Federalists. His rival in vitriol is James Thomson Callender, wanted for sedition in his native Scotland. He was Jefferson's hit man who, when slighted by the Sage of Monticello, spread informed innuendo about his arrangement with slave and lover Sally Hemings. Public reaction to the disclosure makes the Clinton-Lewinsky affair look like a casual game of spin the bottle...
...will discover these words penned by a gay writer named Fenton Johnson back in 1996: "The mystery of love and life and death is really grander and more glorious than human beings can grasp, much less legislate." He will put this sentence onto a bumper sticker. The message will spread. We will realize that the sexes can't live without each other, but neither can they be joined at the hip. We will grow...
This teenage culture of pop songs, cars and acne ointments, of proms, allowances and slumber parties is still unknown in less developed countries. And until the reform of child-labor laws in the 1930s, the spread of suburbia in the 1940s and the rise of targeted youth marketing in the '50s, it was unknown here as well. Early 20th century adolescents were farmers, apprentices, students and soldiers--perhaps even wives and husbands--but not teenagers...