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...element of Lee's platform that most disturbed the mainland was the powerful campaign slogan telling voters, "You're the boss." Says an Asian diplomat in Beijing: "Mainlanders are bound to ask, 'If the Taiwanese could directly elect their leaders, why can't we?'" This fear of democratic contagion comes at a difficult time for the Chinese leadership. While the Taiwanese people elected their President directly, China's political elite is struggling behind the scenes over who will succeed Deng Xiaoping...
...polio. The incidence of the disease had risen sharply in the early part of this century, and every year brought the threat of another outbreak. Parents were haunted by the stories of children stricken suddenly by the telltale cramps and fever. Public swimming pools were deserted for fear of contagion. And year after year polio delivered thousands of people into hospitals and wheelchairs, or into the nightmarish canisters called iron lungs. Or into the grave. In the worst year of epidemic, 1952, when nearly 58,000 cases were reported in the U.S., more than 3,000 people died...
Nevertheless, it is unlikely that the plague would hit Boston, since it would probably surface during the nearly twenty-hour-long trip. In general air travelers have the wealth to afford the treatment necessary to control contagion, according to Lincoln Chen...
...staff has fallen prey to a common contagion of this day: an obsession with equality and with it, the intolerance of inequality...
Hard-traveling fandom has become a benign regional contagion. Loren and Tancy Frank packed up the Chevy Caprice last Sunday, drove the 550 miles from Laurel, Montana, checked into a Holiday Inn, walked over to the Rockies' gate, and bought tickets for back-to-back games against the other expansion team, the Florida Marlins. "Neither of us had ever been to a major-league game before," Tancy observes, "so we said, 'Why not?' " They'll be back. So will Karen Harris, who "wanted to see what all the ruckus was about" and motored in from Wiggins, Colorado, 65 miles away...