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Alan Huffman
American
Author
Bacteria
Cameras
Generally
Knowledge
Own
Sometimes
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Anyone who was alive during the outbreak of the bubonic plague in the 14th century experienced something terrifyingly close to the widespread death and chaos of an apocalyptic event.
Alan Huffman
Death
Chaos
Alive
Outbreak
Something
Close
Experienced
Anyone
Plague
Century
Who
Event
Widespread
Without effective human intervention, epidemics and pandemics typically end only when the virus or bacteria has infected every available host and all have either died or become immune to the disease.
Alan Huffman
Become
Every
Intervention
Virus
Bacteria
Immune
Only
Host
Without
Effective
End
Infected
Disease
Died
Human
Either
Available
Epidemic
Without an adequate response, an epidemic can develop into a pandemic, which generally means it has spread to more than one continent.
Alan Huffman
Pandemic
Adequate
Response
More
Generally
Develop
Without
Spread
Continent
Than
Which
Epidemic
Means
Historically, maritime travelers had to pass around the entire mass of North and South America, including the bottom tip, the tempestuous Cape Horn, which was littered with shipwrecks.
Alan Huffman
Maritime
Horn
Entire
Had
Bottom
Mass
Around
Pass
South
South America
Historically
North
America
Tip
Which
Littered
Cape
Including
Travelers
Right up until the late 18th century, when the first weighted lines were used to probe the ocean depths, many people believed the seas were bottomless - the watery equivalent of infinite outer space.
Alan Huffman
People
Space
First
Ocean
Late
Outer
Outer Space
Weighted
Bottomless
Until
Equivalent
Were
Lines
Up
Infinite
Probe
Century
Depths
Used
Many
Seas
Believed
Right
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility.
Alan Huffman
Drive
Approaches
Synonymous
Physically
Through
Reach
Most
Terrestrial
Within
Accessible
Cameras
Debris
Mount
Mount Everest
Human
Which
Littered
Centuries
Video
Planet
Satellite
Even
Now
Everest
Imagery
Aside from its parks and nature areas, Singapore is intensively developed, and due to the shortage of land, is building up, down and on manmade islands and landfills.
Alan Huffman
Nature
Building
Down
Area
Parks
Developed
Singapore
Islands
Due
Up
Shortage
Land
Aside
Manmade
Poor laborers from all parts of Asia as well as Africa, the Americas and even Europe are transported by plane each day to wealthier nations where low-tier jobs are plentiful; sometimes the travelers board without even knowing their final destination.
Alan Huffman
Day
Destination
Sometimes
Final
Plentiful
Jobs
Knowing
Well
Parts
Without
Laborers
Nations
Africa
Where
Board
Asia
Poor
Plane
Europe
Even
Americas
Each
Each Day
Travelers
Based on German prototypes, green walls and roofs are a natural idea in Singapore's tropical environment, where mosses, ferns, philodendrons, orchids and other epiphytes literally grow on trees.
Alan Huffman
Natural
Walls
Other
Trees
Tropical
Environment
Idea
Singapore
Prototype
German
Green
Where
Literally
Grow
Based
My own experience with trains dates to long-ago childhood trips with my family in Mississippi to see my grandmother off at the station in Jackson, bound for Memphis.
Alan Huffman
Family
Experience
Own
Station
See
Memphis
Trips
My Own
Dates
Bound
Mississippi
Off
Trains
Jackson
Childhood
Grandmother
The slow pace of trains in the U.S. can be maddening, particularly during delays on rail sidings for an hour or more to enable freight trains - which have the right-of-way - to pass.
Alan Huffman
Slow
Maddening
Delays
More
Hour
Particularly
Freight
Enable
Pass
Trains
Pace
Which
Rail
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