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...care centers provide another setting that amplifies microbial mischief. & In 1989, for instance, eight children in a center near Cleveland, Ohio, came down with chronic middle-ear infections caused by the same antibiotic- resistant strain of pneumococcus. Subsequent throat swabs revealed that 50 of the 250 children enrolled at the center had been infected but had not yet shown symptoms. Such outbreaks could have serious consequences: recurrent middle-ear infections can impair hearing, and pneumococcus can also cause meningitis and bacteremia, an infection of the blood that may spread to the joints, heart and even the brain. In the Third...
Despite these characteristics, fate and history and my almost chronic sense of inner responsibility have made my life full of paradoxes and absurdities. I was always active in public life as a citizen. This is something I considered an integral part of my mission as a writer. This is something I will have to continue doing. Knowing myself, I won't disappear from public life. It may become another absurdity and paradox of my life that I could be the President of two different states within a short period of time...
...opponents and resettle entire ethnic groups. The financing of terrorists, who received arms shipments from Soviet warships on the high seas. The personal enrichment of party leaders. The sale of diamonds and gold abroad to buy food and consumer goods for wartorn Afghanistan at a time when there were chronic shortages at home. The squandering of hard currency on more than 70 communist movements around the globe. In one bizarre incident, the party funded training for Italian communists in radio codes and cosmetic surgery -- in case they had to go into hiding...
...schizophrenia, but they can be just as paralyzing. Take the case of Dick Cavett. To many TV viewers, the talk-show host and actor seemed to have it all -- wit, charm, fame and fortune. But behind the glib facade, Cavett was falling apart. About 12 years ago, a chronic depression that had haunted him for years rose up and began undermining what he believed was his most valuable asset: his intellect. He became convinced that his brain was "broken" and that life without it was hardly worth living. "Everything seemed to be growing gray," he recalls. "All the things that...
Depression comes in many flavors, from seasonal depressions that come and go with the short days of winter to low-level chronic depressions that linger for months. Among the symptoms of clinical depression are weight loss, early waking, diminished sex drive and a general hopelessness. But some people have what are called atypical depressions in which they put on weight and sleep much...