These fast-spreading, still-evolving plans could be the sleeper tax break of the 1997 tax act, which made them far more attractive.

FORBES: College breaks

Upping the speed at which the wax was pulled apart produced a ridge like the fast-spreading (18cm a year) East-Pacific Rise.

ECONOMIST: Geophysics

Authorities searched for answers Monday, hoping to learn what sparked the blaze and why five of the victims could not escape the fast-spreading flames.

NPR: Limo Driver: Fire Took 3 Minutes To Claim 5 Lives

If the cancer is not particularly fast-spreading and aggressive, and is confined to only one part of the bladder wall, then a partial or "segmental" cystectomy could be carried out.

BBC: Bladder cancer

Executives interviewed for the report indicated that the social media risk is rising, and they worry about cyber attacks, breaches of confidentiality, fast-spreading malicious rumors about the company, as well as financial disclosures.

FORBES: Social Media Risk Is Like Wildfire. Where's the Fire Engine?

And ever more new wireless standards, such as the three flavors of Wi-Fi, are spreading fast.

FORBES: Magazine Article

This all-in-one plastic is spreading fast in Asia.

CNN: ASIANOW - Asiaweek

And yet, at a time of fast-melting glaciers and strange rains, of spreading deserts and rising seas, it is a frail and distant promise.

ECONOMIST: China, India and climate change

The dour news followed other similar profit warnings from the likes of electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi last week, underscoring that Europe's debt crisis could be fast spreading to far corners of the world as many consumer keep their wallets shut.

WSJ: Asian Shares Fall

Part-time work, much of it done by women, is also spreading particularly fast in Spain, Italy, Belgium and Portugal.

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