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...practicing public health officer, I read with great interest your report on E. coli O157:H7 [KILLER BACTERIA, Aug. 3]. It provided readers with a real-life example of what epidemiologists do to protect the public health and underscored the need for maintaining skills and capabilities as an integral part of the U.S. public health system. All too often shortsighted budget cuts weaken the system's capacity to identify an outbreak quickly and intervene early enough to prevent further spread of an illness. Effective prevention requires some investment, and this is more important than ever with so many newly emerging...
Jillian Kasky is the editor of TIME/The Princeton Review's The Best College for You, available on newsstands on Aug...
WRITTEN IN THE STARS Many observers think Aug. 17 will be a hard day for Bill Clinton, but that's not what the stars say. "It looks like it's going to be a piece of cake," says Jerome Rainville of the American School of Astrology. "Clinton has no planets opposing him, and Mercury and Venus are in alignment. On the 16th he will be getting good advice. He will have Sun sextile Jupiter, which gives vision and ideas. On the 17th he will be very cool, not uptight at all." What about Ken Starr? "Things look difficult...
...ready. Though the software has been selling briskly, critics have been compiling an increasingly lengthy list of bugs in the program. Gates, typically, is ready on both fronts with Microsoft's new "gentle" strategy: the firm plans to give away the update for free at microsoft.com starting Aug. 18, helping to squelch complaints about the new software. And Gates' lawyers will ask this week to have the federal suit thrown out of court, arguing that depositions of Netscape veeps have done nothing to show that Microsoft tried to force its smaller competitor out of the market. This...
...Clancy's new book is more than just another tale of antiterrorism. Rainbow Six is a new brand. Clancy's idea for the book grew out of a PC game of the same name (due out Aug. 27) from Red Storm Entertainment--a company Clancy founded two years ago. Game players will face the same sort of predicaments that befall John Clark, the novel's hero. Next we'd like to see the game that inspired Bridget Jones's Diary...