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...long-respected health-care system in Cuba is faltering under the combined impact of the U.S. embargo and the loss of the East bloc as a reliable trading partner. While Cuba can still boast of having 51,000 doctors -- 1 for every 231 inhabitants -- it suffers from a critical shortage of medications and medical supplies. Last year's mysterious neuropathy epidemic, which affected more than 50,000 people and was apparently linked to nutritional deficiencies, has run its course with no deaths, but critical shortages are threatening to unravel a health system once described by the Pan-American Health Organization...
...American war-production job was probably the greatest collective achievement of all time," said Donald Nelson, chairman of the War Production Board from 1942 to 1944. "It makes the seven wonders of the ancient world look like the doodlings of a small boy on a rainy Saturday afternoon." A boast perhaps, but the men who stormed into Normandy 50 years ago succeeded in large measure because of the helping hands of 60 million Americans who waged the war in factories and farms back home...
...possible when Tishrin, the mouthpiece of the Syrian ruling party, wrote that Damascus would consider accepting a withdrawal from the Golan in phases. Until now, Syria has rejected a staged pullout, which Israel prefers in order to build trust gradually. Christopher left the Mideast without any tangible achievement to boast of. Late last week, in a move which may further imperil Mideast negotiations, Israeli commandos abducted the leader of a militant Shi'ite faction in Lebanon...
Loyola does not boast of the same one-two punch that Dartmouth does, but nevertheless its offense can be potent, as it did score 11 times against the Crimson in their one meeting...
...average age of their pitching staff is 24 years old now. The average age of eight Red Sox pitchers, on the other hand, is 34. (Frank Viola turned 34 yesterday). Still worse, the Sox boast a bunch of old players such as (former Brave) Otis Nixon, Scott Fletcher, Andre Dawson and Dave Valle...