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...TIME:Let's say you?re living in a WNV hotspot, like Louisiana, and you don't feel great. When should you go to doctor...
DIED. SWAMI SATCHIDA-NANDA, 87, prodigiously bearded guru who opened the 1969 Woodstock festival; while attending a peace conference in Madras, South India. Satchidananda attracted hundreds of om-chanting followers, including the '60s psychedelic artist Peter Max, musician Carole King and heart doctor Dean Ornish...
...vomit. Locals called it the "rat plague." In fact it was the bubonic plague?the Black Death that killed a third of Europe's population in the 14th century?revived and spread by the Japanese military. Huang, now 79, was lucky back in late 1941 when a friendly doctor pulled him from a quarantine center and nursed him to health, but four relatives were among the 7,643 people in the area that the government says perished. The years haven't diminished his rage. "I hate the Japanese so much I can't live with them under the same...
...staying in touch. So on Aug. 24 when he stopped answering his cell phone, his wife was immediately alarmed. A week later, Wan is still missing. Human rights groups say he may have been arrested in Beijing for speaking out about China's growing AIDS crisis. The Shanghai-trained doctor has run afoul of authorities before, most recently in July when his Beijing-based AIDS Action Project was stripped of its legal status and forced to vacate its offices on a research institute campus. But if Wan has been picked up, who's got him? On the day he vanished...
...Completing the traditional arts, Angel, a musician who can make stones sing, lives there too. Mixing Ingmar Bergman with Monty Python, strange, vaguely metaphorical characters pop in and out. Pudgy, bowler-hatted men regularly visit the writer to collect anything that he loves, giving them over to a mad doctor who dissects the objects, looking for their soul. The painter receives a visit from a mute gallery owner who keeps word-cards in his pocket and forms malapropisms like, "Oh, sheep I've lost all my sobbing colours...