Word: ailments
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...elected Zyuganov. But they really voted for the lesser of two evils," says TIME's Bruce Nelan. For Yeltsin, the chief problem is his rapidly failing health. While a smiling, confident Yeltsin cast his ballot from a rest home outside Moscow, rumors that he continues to suffer a heart ailment persist. But for today, anyway, the Russian president was in full campaign mode, reminding Russians to get out and vote. A high voter turnout, which in many areas ran between 60 and 65 percent, was considered vital for Yeltsin's reelection. A smaller turnout would have helped Zyuganov...
Duncan was lucky; he caught and released several more fish that afternoon. Other trout aficionados will make the pilgrimage to Colorado's and Montana's world-renowned wild-trout streams this fishing season and come away skunked. The cause: the tail-blackening "whirling disease," a mysterious and usually fatal ailment that is spreading rapidly through prized trout populations of the Rocky Mountain West. In Colorado, where the rainbow is the mainstay of a $1 billion-a-year game-fishing industry, the disease has infected hatcheries, devastated trout on a prime stretch of the Colorado River and spilled into...
...ailment was first detected in Pennsylvania in 1958--imported, scientists believe, in a shipment of trout fillets from Denmark--and has since turned up in 20 other states. Not all trout are susceptible. Brown trout show signs of infection but seem to be weathering it, and fishing for browns is still good in most streams. For some reason the rainbows of the Rockies, which breed in cold mountain water and create the wild-trout populations so valued by anglers, are especially vulnerable...
...Yeltsin appeared tired and beaten. He seemed to have been unaware of the passion of discontent outside Moscow, a city about as representative of Russia as New York is of America. Yeltsin himself is partly to blame for being so out of touch. Suffering from an apparently serious heart ailment, the man many Russians liken to a modern-day czar has for the past two years been a virtual Kremlin recluse. And his inner circle of aides, forever jockeying for position, seem to have concluded long ago that bearing bad news to their boss is the least career-enhancing service...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: The Food and Drug Administration approved a device which microwaves enlarged prostates to burn off extra tissue and relieve the pressure on the bladder and urethra. The procedure provides a safe alternative to surgery for millions of men who suffer from an uncomfortable -->