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...number of reported cases has surged, from 33,700 in 1980 to 47,800 last year. Those figures represent only a small fraction of the problem, since most cases, - while unpleasant, pass quickly and go unreported. Experts believe that each year as many as 4 million Americans have a bout with salmonella. Occasionally the infection is serious enough to require hospitalization, and it can lead to arthritis, neurological problems and even death. The elderly, AIDS sufferers and others with weakened immune systems are especially vulnerable to the disease, which claims 2,000 lives annually...
BUSINESS: An epic slump gives builders a bad bout of the blues...
...with 20 minutes remaining in Saturday's game, it looked like a second bout of a two-period overtime for this reporter...
...main characters make urgent love, man to woman, woman to woman. They visit a whorehouse and watch prostitutes mime sex. They attend a dada Mardi Gras where nude women wear blue paint. But Henry & June is not a blue movie. Kaufman is a fastidious director; he bathes every love bout in soft focus, or covers it in lace, or reflects it in a goldfish bowl. It's not just that his intent is artistic, it's that his content is mild. Lesbian love, for example, was shown more graphically in Personal Best, Desert Hearts or Kaufman's The Unbearable Lightness...
...Harvard." Long pause. Okay, I got it over with. I dropped the H-bomb. Let's move on. "How 'bout this Iraq thing...