When rumor hit the commodities trading floor in Chicago three years ago that Kansas cattle had contracted foot-and-mouth disease, prices plummeted. 当三年前有关堪萨斯牛只感染口蹄疫的谣言传入芝加哥的商品交易所时,牛只价格一泻千里。
Chlorine was first added to a community water system in1908 in Chicago and was instrumental in eliminating many types of water-borne disease such as Cholera and Typhoid fever. 1908年,芝加哥的公共用水系统首次加入氯,为的是要消除饮用水引起的多种疾病,如霍乱、伤寒等。
Two studies from the University at Buffalo presented at the2008 American Academy of Neurology meeting in Chicago shed new light on very early development of the disease. 在芝加哥举行的2008年美国神经学会会议上,来自布法罗大学的2项研究聚焦在帕金森氏病非常早期的变化上。
"Survival of the fittest applies to cancer cells," says Richard schilsky, Associate Dean for clinical research at the University of chicago." we now think of cancer not as a disease but as a genetic process. " 芝加哥大学临床研究副院长理查德希勒斯基说:“适者生存的理论也适合于癌细胞。我们现在不把癌看成疾病,而是看成基因生长过程。”