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...provides a great deal of power to the expert. I'm writing this editorial using Word Perfect and Windows, so when I encounter a bug I have no choice but to grin and bear it. It would be impossible for me to rewrite both programs from scratch, so I have little recourse but to call the company, whine, and pray that it will be fixed in the next release...
While all have been developing their leg muscles through their training, Cole has prepped for the race by augmenting his knowledge as well. Cole has become an expert on marathons and became expansive on the subject of marathon history, boasting a slew of little-known race facts...
...trial heard prosecutors harp on the videotape, this team meticulously countered defense evidence. On whether King's facial wounds came from police batons, Koon testified, "Mr. King fell like a tree. He made a one-point landing on his face." Dr. Harry Smith of San Antonio, Texas, a leading expert witness, asserted this scenario was impossible. The bones beneath King's right eye were crushed to powder, which required a pressure equivalent to 350 lbs., while his nose, which would have been broken by pressure of about 50 lbs., remained intact. Such uneven damage could not come from a flat...
Milwaukee's waterworks flu is not the first outbreak of cryptosporidiosis in this country, nor is it likely to be the last. Indeed, Walter Jakubowski, a parasitology expert for the Environmental Protection Agency, believes that most surface water is now contaminated with the parasite. "It's so widespread," he observes, "that you just can't keep it out." In 1984 the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control investigated several outbreaks in day-care centers in five states. In 1987 an outbreak in Carrollton, Georgia, made 13,000 people absolutely miserable. Two Oregon towns, Medford and Talent, experienced an outbreak last...
...healthy adults, the symptoms are usually mild enough to go unnoticed. But for others -- notably, infants, AIDS patients and the elderly -- cryptosporidiosis can be serious, sometimes life threatening. "The wasting syndrome we see in so many AIDS patients," observes Dr. John Flaherty, an infectious-disease expert at the University of Chicago, "is most commonly due to cryptosporidiosis...