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What especially worries those familiar with the newfound ailment is that doctors may fail to recognize it and so may not treat it properly. Unlike Lyme disease, which usually begins with a bull's-eye rash around the site of the tick bite, HGE has no telltale warning signs. Nor is there a definitive test for the disease. Doctors must base their diagnosis on such circumstantial evidence as abnormal spots on white blood cells and a low level of white cells or platelets in the blood. Furthermore, the drug most commonly used for Lyme disease -- amoxicillin -- is useless against...
...lewd popular culture, rails against the chip as bringing us "one step closer to government control of what we see on television." While the Senate bill calls for broadcasters to devise their own rating system, it mandates the government to appoint a commission to do so if TV programmers fail to construct one within a year. Such industry agreement seems unlikely...
President Clinton threatened to unleash a barrage of vetoes if Republicans insist on slashing key domestic programs and fail to take more seriously his gentler,10-year plan to balance the budget. "I will continue to act, alone if necessary," he declared at a speech to delegates of Boys Nation, a high school good-government program in which he once took part. "There are a lot of things being done here which will violate and undermine our chances to achieve common ground." The President suggested the GOP was leaving him little choice but to veto fiscal 1996 appropriations bills...
...think, of course, there is a conspiracy on the part of business owners or park comissioners to fail to cater to all users equally. Indeed, it is clear that more and more attractions have been making the effort to set aside a more convenient restroom or install a ramp, showing that increasing thought (or zoning pressure!) has occurred regarding accessibility...
...over the Pacific Ocean from his hilltop home in San Francisco, he speaks wistfully of settling down, although that isn't likely soon. He is busily planning events in Lyons and Manchester well into the next millennium. "I like coming up with new ideas," he says. "And if I fail once in a while, it's worth it." Anyone who has heard him conduct can only agree...