Word: viruses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent study by Harvard researchers on genetic growth patterns has revealed how carcinogens destroy cells inhabited by a virus. Mark S. Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, explained the mechanism by which the phage lambda, a parasitical virus, grows relentlessly when exposed to cancer-causing agents and eventually destroys its host cell, Ptashne said yesterday...
...virus is beginning to infect the Broadway musical and its name is opera. Last season's Sweeney Todd strained to achieve operatic style with recitatives and songs structured like arias; this season's Evita dispenses entirely with spoken dialogue...
Inflation has spread a financial virus of unwanted dollars to the economies of the nation's trading partners, turning the once mighty greenback into the sick man of international finance. Since 1970, some $650 billion has piled up in so-called Eurodollar accounts in banks overseas, and the threat is ever present that holders might stampede to sell their dollars. Since 1971, minipanics have led to the collapse of worldwide fixed exchange rates against the dollar, the slide of the dollar against gold and other precious metals, and the progressive disintegration of global confidence in the dollar itself...
...Herpes Virus Hypothesis...
This challenging theory holds that atherosclerosis results from infection by the ubiquitous herpes viruses. At Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, Microbiologist Catherine Fabricant and colleagues are working with a herpes virus that produces in chickens a variety of tumors known as Marek's disease. The scientists found that it also causes atherosclerotic lesions in heart arteries. But, intriguingly, virustree chickens do not develop heart disease even when fed a high cholesterol diet. Fabricant speculates that something similar may happen in humans as well...