Word: tends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...manufacturing sufficient quantities of any bacteria in a stable form is a technical and scientific challenge; plague bugs, for example, degrade within hours when exposed to the sun, and anthrax spores tend to clump together in humid conditions. The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo sprayed anthrax and botulism eight times over parts of Tokyo without effect...
...deaths each year. The Rajneeshees considered a number of different viruses and bacteria, including those that cause hepatitis and typhus, but decided for their purposes (disrupting the outcome of a local election) on a strain of salmonella that would be debilitating but not fatal. Salmonella poisonings tend to be localized. With proper hygiene, the bacterium is not particularly contagious...
...package. If someone leaves a bag behind, within minutes a citizen alerts the police, who clear the area until the bomb squad can send in a robot to blow it up. This is such a common scene in Israeli cities that it doesn't even draw a crowd. Israelis tend to be acutely aware of who is around them. They search faces and notice odd behavior--for instance, a man wearing a heavy jacket in summertime. That kind of vigilance has paid off on occasion, thwarting would-be attackers or panicking them into blowing themselves up prematurely...
...their gifts are getting to the needy. Toting two cameras, Gray snaps pictures of aid recipients sitting in their new wheelchair or clutching their new Reeboks and sends them to the benefactors, sometimes from a laptop. "Nothing grabs givers like photos, receipts and other hard documentation," he explains. "Givers tend to remain generous when they really know their gifts are being received by the poor." That assurance has helped him build a stable of more than 100 steady contributors, including National Spirit Group, a Dallas custom-apparel maker that keeps him stocked with T shirts, hats and warm-up suits...
...hard to understand why the tourists aren't coming. "The people were cutting each other's heads off," Roy, a tour guide, says, running his finger across his neck. "They threw the heads away like plastic." And though the Christian-Muslim riots were 21 months ago, tales of beheadings tend to stick in the mind. Besides, there have been problems since, including a fight between rival villages in which nine people died. And anyway, this is Indonesia, sick man of Asia, viewed as primed to explode in 1,000 different ethnic and religious directions. Seriously, why holiday in Lombok...