Each person infected with coronavirus is passing the disease on to between two and three other people on average at current transmission rates, according to two separate scientific analyses of the epidemic.
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Coronavirus contagion rate makes it hard to control: studies
Weary of War, but Favoring Airstrike Plan
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Many Americans agree that ISIS is a threat to the United States, but many wonder whether the country should edge toward another war.
A decade on from Greece's staging of the Olympic Games, many of its once-gleaming venues now lie derelict
PlotBased on the William Kennedy novel of the same name Ironweed is set in the waning years of the Depression. Jack Nicholson plays Francis Phelan, a washed-up ballplayer (a onetime infielder for the Washington Senators) who deserted his family back in the 1910s when he accidentally killed his infant son by dropping him. Since that time, Phelan has been a shabby barfly, living from drink to drink; he spends his days palling around with Rudy (Tom Waits), with whom he works a motley series of jobs in exchange for a place to lay his head and an occasional jug of wine. Wandering into his hometown of Albany, New York, Phelan blearily seeks out his girlfriend and erstwhile drinking companion of nine years, Helen Archer (Meryl Streep), who has begun prostituting herself for drink and lodging. The two derelicts touch base in a mission managed by minister James Gammon, and later in Fred Gwynne's squalid gin mill. Over the next few days, Phelan takes a few minor jobs to support his habit, while his mind wavers between past and present. Eventually, a chance for a reconciliation with his wife (Carroll Baker) emerges. Directed by Hector Babenco following his enormous success with Kiss of the Spider Woman , Ironweed netted Oscar nominations for Nicholson and Streep. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Piotr Redlinski for The New York Times
Urge to Own Clapton Guitar Is Contagious
By JOHN TIERNEY
Social scientists have just published papers analyzing the “celebrity contagion” that leads collectors to bid high.
Investors
battered European stocks and dumped bonds after the collapse of weekend
coalition talks in Greece edged the country closer to an exit from the
euro zone.
Spain Hit By Fears On Banks, Athens
Spain Hit By Fears On Banks, Athens
Fears
about a potentially messy Greek exit from the euro zone washed up on
Spain's shores, pulling local stock prices to lows not seen in eight and
a half years as the country's borrowing costs continued to soar.
contagion[con・ta・gion]
- 発音記号[kəntéidʒən]
[名]
2 接触伝染病（菌）.
3 [U][C]（思想・感情などの）伝播(でんぱ), 伝染（力）, 感化［影響］（力）；悪影響；（道徳的）腐敗.
edge
━━[動](他)
2 ((通例受身))…にへりをつける, を（…で）縁取る((with, in ...))；…をへりを付けて囲む, にへりを作る
4 …に辛勝する, わずかの差で勝つ. edge,
VERB
(自)
(1) ⇒(自)1
(2) （食後に）食器類を洗う, 食後のあとかたづけをする.
(1) ⇒(自)1
(2) （食後に）食器類を洗う, 食後のあとかたづけをする.
washed-up
adjective, orig and mainly US
Defeated, exhausted, finished; having failed. (1923 —) .
C. Williams I'm washed up as a writer (1958).
barfly
(bär'flī')
n. Slang, pl., -flies.
One who frequents drinking establishments.
motley
(mŏt'lē)
adj.
- Having elements of great variety or incongruity; heterogeneous: "Most Ivy League freshman classes are chosen from a motley collection of constituencies . . . and a bare majority of entering students can honestly be called scholars" (New York Times).
- Having many colors; variegated; parti-colored: a motley tunic.
- The parti-colored attire of a court jester.
- A heterogeneous, often incongruous mixture of elements.
[Middle English motlei, variegated cloth, variegated, probably from Anglo-Norman, probably from Middle English mot, speck. See mote1.]
Bleary-Eyed Syrian Troops Fight a Building at a Time
By JANINE DI GIOVANNI
Syrian soldiers'
battle to retake a rebel-held school in Homs reflects an exhausting war
of attrition, a seesaw in which the opposition gains ground and the
government takes it back.
bleary
(blîr'ē) adj., -i·er, -i·est.
- Blurred or dimmed by or as if by tears: bleary eyes.
- Vaguely outlined; indistinct.
- Exhausted; worn-out.
bleariness blear'i·ness n.
- [dérəlìkt]
[形]
1 （所有者・保護者などに）見捨てられた, 放棄された
a derelict vessel
遺棄船
遺棄船
a derelict building
廃屋.
廃屋.
2 ((米))（…の点で）怠慢な, 無責任な((in ...))
derelict behavior
無責任な態度
無責任な態度
be derelict in one's obligation
義務を怠る.
義務を怠る.
━━[名]
1 遺棄物；《海事》遺棄船.
2 社会の落後者；浮浪者.
3 ((米))職務怠慢者.
Make contact or renew communications with, as in I'll try to touch base with you when I'm in Ohio, or The candidate touched base with every ethnic group in the city. This idiom comes from baseball, where a runner must touch each base without being tagged before a run can be scored.
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