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...worried should Americans be? Plenty, suggests David Quinn, 41, who lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York. An avid jogger, Quinn was stretching in his backyard when he spotted a little black dot on his leg. Once he realized that it was a tick, he quickly removed it with a pair of tweezers. But not quickly enough. Four days later, Quinn fell violently ill. "I had a fever of 102 degrees, and it felt like a hammer was banging in my head," he recalls. "I couldn't keep my head up, but I couldn't lie down either because my back...
Stargazers in the 17th century named them nebulae, the Latin word for clouds, but modern astronomers have become convinced that many of the faint, fuzzy patches of light that dot the night sky are really huge clumps of interstellar gas that act as cosmic nurseries -- the places where new stars are born. The glow comes from infant suns lighting up the clouds, like fireworks illuminating their surrounding pall of smoke. "Fireworks" is an apt description, since the prevailing theory among astronomers is that star birth must be a cataclysmically violent process. But without detailed pictures of what's going...
...LISAS IS A DINKY, DROWSY TOWN IN the Dominican Republic, much like others that dot the small Caribbean country's northern coast. Chickens run in the one paved street; pigs root near the pink and green huts. At a roadside stand, a caldron of soup sits outside the door. A few men while away the afternoon hours playing dominoes in the shade of a nut tree...
...andcommunication lines open to ensuring thathospitals remain functional and supplied. TheDefense Department drew up elaborate plans andprovisions, most of which are now probably burieddeep in a file cabinet in the Pentagon, never tobe uncovered. But one aspect of CD remains visibletoday--the hundreds of millions of certifiedfallout shelters that dot every town in thiscountry...
Incongruous ensembles dot the score. A whole chorus of Portuguese townspeople interrupts an inquisition with "What a day for an autoda-fe." The cast collectively bemoans their lot with unfortunately appropriate words--"What's the use"--to the strains of Venetain-style organ grinding that would have made even Sir Arthur Sullivan shudder...