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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...
...legitimate -- cameras and notebooks tend to converge on those crises that really do deserve greater attention. Yugoslavia figures as a kind of test case of what might happen throughout decommunized, unstable Central and Eastern Europe. Unrestrained ethnic rivalries in these lands threaten to turn the European Community on its ear, upsetting a prosperous balance gained only in the past couple of generations...
...your small, high, hateful bugle in my ear...
Like fellow cartoonists Jules Feiffer and Garry Trudeau, William Hamilton of the New Yorker plainly reckons that an eye for the absurdities of character and an ear for dialogue make him a playwright. But unlike those colleagues, he seems not to have grasped the basic dramatic principle that showing is better than telling. In his INTERIOR DECORATION, at San Diego's Old Globe Theater, a woman executive senses her biological clock ticking and fancies an even fancier executive as a sperm donor, but no more. They are introduced by their mutual interior decorators, and romantic complications ensue. Most of them...
...author sketches characters with deft, quick brushstrokes. Her chief detective is a former scholar who spots similarities between medieval guilds and the rigidly hierarchical institute. Throughout, Gur draws intriguing parallels between psychoanalysis and police detection. They are both lonely jobs, she writes, demanding time, patience and a sharp ear for the things that are not said...