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...plagues about 1 million Americans each year, most of them elderly--chances are you know how devastating it can be. And if you've never had shingles--well, just wait. Shingles is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox--a nasty little bundle of DNA that lies dormant in sensory nerves for decades after the initial infection until, for reasons that are still unclear, it is reawakened. Anyone who has ever had chicken pox is at risk of developing shingles, as well as the nerve damage that often accompanies the rash...
...panel resurrected the dormant campus debate over Israeli divestment, which flared in 2002 when 75 Harvard faculty members signed a petition calling on the University to sell its $600 million stake in companies that have significant operations in the Jewish state...
Time and again, volunteers have jump-started dormant death houses. Gary Gilmore, whose 1977 execution rang in the modern capital-punishment era, was a volunteer. So was Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh, the first federal prisoner executed since 1963. Death-row inmates often recognize what's at stake. In Ohio in 1997, rioting death-row inmates attempted to kill Wilford Lee Berry Jr., who was trying to become the first Ohioan executed in more than 30 years. Berry survived the beating and was put to death in 1999. Since then, 15 other Ohio inmates have been executed...
Cervero did not at first know that he had been flying 7,000 ft. above a 17,716-ft.-high, long-dormant volcano known as Nevado del Ruiz at the exact moment when it came thunderously alive. Within hours, that rebirth had left upwards of 20,000 people dead or missing in a steaming, mile-wide avalanche of gray ash and mud. Thousands more were injured, orphaned and homeless. The Colombian town of Armero (pop. about 22,500) had virtually disappeared. At week's end a huge cloud of ash, rising as high as 45,000 ft., hung dramatically over...
Following the high of its dramatic game one victory, Harvard suffered a letdown against the Tigers in game two. Princeton mercy-ruled the Crimson in five innings, regaining its hitting stroke after lying dormant in the opener...