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ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN Scourge of communism loses his TV series to a capitalist ailment: low ratings...
...times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage. "I feel trapped and stifled," says Pyle, 48, who was forced by a chronic heart ailment to take early retirement as Sutter Creek's postmaster. "You think, 'Oh, God, what if this house is killing...
...microscope at tissue samples from the teenager's body, he noted that the bronchioles, the tiniest airways in the lungs, were inflamed and scarred. These telltale signs, he reported last week, indicated that Taylor, like more than 6,000 other Americans each year, had died of a fairly common ailment: asthma...
...however, Dole suffers from diverticulosis, a condition in which small pouches of tissue form within the intestinal lining and may occasionally bleed and cause discomfort. A daily regimen of Metamucil and foods high in fiber has successfully kept him from experiencing any painful episodes as a result of this ailment...
What especially worries those familiar with the newfound ailment is that doctors may fail to recognize it and so may not treat it properly. Unlike Lyme disease, which usually begins with a bull's-eye rash around the site of the tick bite, HGE has no telltale warning signs. Nor is there a definitive test for the disease. Doctors must base their diagnosis on such circumstantial evidence as abnormal spots on white blood cells and a low level of white cells or platelets in the blood. Furthermore, the drug most commonly used for Lyme disease -- amoxicillin -- is useless against...