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...bees. There is no doubt that the Africanized bees, known as Apis mellifera scutellata, have exceptionally nasty tempers. While they are slightly smaller and no more venomous than their European cousins, they go out of their way to attack, and they do so in overwhelming swarms. Ever since a batch of imported Africanized bees was accidentally released near São Paulo by a Brazilian scientist in 1957, they have been buzzing northward at a rate of more than 200 miles a year. They have killed thousands of animals and some 150 people during their migration. They entered Honduras about half...
...solely on the basis of the type of sexual partner," says Volberding of San Francisco General. "Heterosexuals are clearly at risk of acquiring the disease from sexual contact." The Burk family of Cresson, Pa., is a sad case in point. Patrick, 27, a hemophiliac, contracted AIDS from a contaminated batch of blood-clotting factor, which he requires to control his condition. His wife Lauren, 24, has since developed ARC and apparently passed the virus on to their 15-month-old son Dwight, most likely during her pregnancy. Daughter Nicole, 4, is the only one in the family left untouched...
...people deliberately do things that they are afraid of." He had always written a lot ("Writing is so dignified," he says, rolling his eyes and dragging out the so like a saxophonist playing Blue Moon). In 1970 The New Yorker printed one piece out of a batch he had sent in, a small, eerily funny sketch, "Local Family Keeps Son Happy." It was written in the plonking style of a country newspaper, and it reported that two householders, hoping to shield their teenage son from the dangers of fast driving and foolish companions, had acquired a live-in prostitute...
...Shanghai fever is especially acute in the trendy area of Xintiandi, where the Lakeville apartments are probably China's most coveted properties. The next batch of Lakeville units isn't expected to be finished until mid-2006, but nearly 1,000 people have already registered to be notified as soon as they go on sale. Shu Yin Lee, who runs a property syndicate that made millions by buying five Lakeville penthouses while they were under construction, says he gets calls every day from agents with clients eager to buy them. But even after doubling his money, he's holding...
...lustrations currently sweeping Central and Eastern Europe first broke out in Slovakia, where late last year the government-sponsored Institute of National Memory (UPN) began publishing the names of some 10,000 alleged collaborators from the files of the former secret police, the StB. The final batch of names was released earlier this month. Among the accused is Archbishop Ján Sokol, 71, one of the country's three most senior prelates and an opponent of the communist regime. Yet according to StB records, Sokol agreed to collaborate with that regime just as it was collapsing in 1989. Sokol...