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...destruction caused by the recent earthquake in India's Maharashtra state that killed an estimated 28,000 people. Officials estimate that 1 million sightseers have invaded the devastated areas, disrupting relief work and creating horrific traffic snarls. Chief Minister Sharad Pawar said an injured woman bled to death because it took an ambulance three hours to cover 3 km, on roads clogged with people and vehicles, to the nearest mobile hospital. "We are sick of the tourists," said Vidyagar Karandikar, a senior government administrator...
...Serbs, particularly their militia leaders, were adamant, arguing that the Vance-Owen plan meant giving up land they had bled for -- something they would never do. "Let them bomb us," smirked Radoslav Brdjanin, a faction leader from Banja Luka. "We will win the war." Serbian commanders had already begun moving their headquarters and supply centers out of towns and into caves and wooded areas. After 17 hours of debate at Pale, the assembly voted to submit the peace proposal to a referendum among Bosnian Serbs on May 15. The move was a ploy that allowed Karadzic to claim Vance-Owen...
...COMPETITIVE WORLD," ACKNOWLEDGED David Rowland, chairman of Lloyd's of London, "we have performed very poorly." That was hardly news for the nearly 20,000 "Names," Lloyd's investors who in some instances have lost fortunes as the 300-year-old insurance firm bled $9.4 billion in red ink over a four- year period. Losses for 1990, to be reported in June, could be a record $4.4 billion. What was news was the unveiling of Lloyd's first ever business plan -- a 70-page overhaul designed to attract new investors and allow companies, starting next year, to become members...
...aren't they sick? Clinicians and researchers have poked, prodded, questioned and bled their healthy human guinea pigs four to six times a year every year in search of any relevant information. Last month the NIH held its first scientific conference to evaluate the mounting evidence. So far, success in fighting HIV does not appear to be closely linked to good diets, the lack of drug use or stress or the absence of other sexually transmitted diseases. Finding no simple patterns, researchers are zeroing in on the men's individual immune responses, even searching through their genetic makeups...
When the larger slab of ice hit her, Molnar said she "leaned over but did not lose consciousness. My head went numb. "The chunk made a three-inchcut on the back of her head, which bled profusely, she said...