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Suffocating and sometimes poisonous blooms of algae -- the so-called red and brown tides -- regularly blot the nation's coastal bays and gulfs, leaving behind a trail of dying fish and contaminated mollusks and crustaceans. Patches of water that have been almost totally depleted of oxygen, known as dead zones, are proliferating. As many as 1 million fluke and flounder were killed earlier this summer when they became trapped in anoxic water in New Jersey's Raritan Bay. Another huge dead zone, 300 miles long and ten miles wide, is adrift in the Gulf of Mexico...
...stunning turnabout in Kim's political fortunes. Because he refused to give up his presidential candidacy and rally support for the more promising Kim Young Sam, the country's other major opposition leader, Kim Dae Jung bore most of the blame for dividing the opposition vote last December, a blot that prompted his resignation as party leader two months ago. Now Kim not only will reclaim his National Assembly seat after an absence of 17 years, but also appears certain to become a key legislative power broker. Kim promised cooperation with Roh but warned that it would come with conditions...
...Secretary of War, adding the bland advice, "Be as reasonable as you can." Signed a week later, the order led to the roundup and internment of 120,000 Japanese Americans for the duration of World War II, an action that Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga calls the "one great blot on the Constitution." Last week the nation moved a step closer to expunging that stain. The Senate voted to give an apology and a tax-free payment of $20,000 to each of the 60,000 surviving internees. The bill must now go to the House, which has already passed...
...father of Baby K. is one-quarter Indian, of the Tarascan tribe of Mexico. He claims that he would see to it that Allyssa is not entirely deprived of her heritage. But for Rick Pitts, when he imagines the child growing up on the reservation, the images of poverty blot out the virtues of cultural identity. "Look at the houses, look at the shacks," he says. "Most likely she'd grow up, get disgusted, leave and never come back." Last week Allyssa awaited her fate wearing a layer of sweet powder. A Navajo medicine man had covered her with...
...Witte sent some of the frozen samples to Tulane University, where they were definitively analyzed by Virologist Robert Garry. "There's no question that the tissue was positive for AIDS," Garry states. In fact, Robert R.'s blood reacted to all nine markers used in the highly sensitive Western blot test for AIDS antibodies. Why didn't the researchers have the samples tested earlier? "We waited until the chance of documenting the infection was more likely," Witte explains...