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...there Lieserl's life was poignantly short. According to Zackheim, the little girl died at 21 months after a bout of scarlet fever. Zackheim even gives the date of her death--Sept. 15, 1903, when Vojvodina was darkened by a solar eclipse, the sort of celestial ballet between sun and moon that would later provide the world with the first proof of the correctness of Einstein's radical new ideas about time and space...
Although he survived his bout with cancer, the experience changed him permanently...
...supposed to be, the delay seems to cause some sort of damage: cryptorchidism affects only 3% of the male population but is a factor in 14% of testicular-cancer cases. Doctors have identified other risk factors, such as a family history of testicular cancer, HIV infection and a previous bout with the disease. But none of these explain the dramatic rise in incidence. Other possible risks include occupational exposure to extreme temperatures and the maternal use of fertility hormones...
...Greenspan remains ahead of the curve, acting promptly to hold down inflation just like he said he would," says TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl. "But the markets had their rally Monday ?- and most of the time it?s ?buy on the rumor, sell on the news.?" But any bout of post-ratem profit-taking isn?t likely to last long -? after all, corporate earnings are coming soon (and looking promising). Even better, Greenspan won?t be poking his head up again until sometime around Groundhog...
...lose Dagestan. Things are bad over there," ex-Prime Minister Sergei Stepashin said as he was surrendering his office last week. Bad they are: a new bout of fighting in Dagestan, a tiny Muslim republic of 2.1 million people and more than 30 ethnic groups in the Russian North Caucasus, is turning into a full-fledged war. In Moscow's political back rooms, there's fear it may evolve into something even more frightening: an excuse to cancel coming elections and clamp a state-of-emergency rule over Russia...