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Equally lethal to some are insect bites, which cause a fatal allergic reaction in some 40 Americans each year. As many as 20% of people in the U.S. have a severe local response to bites from yellow jackets, hornets, honeybees, wasps and fire ants. An arm swollen to twice its normal size is not unusual. Of the 2 million annually whose reactions to stings spread throughout the body, a few hundred thousand will break out in hives and suffer shortness of breath. Yet, according to the estimate of Dr. Martin Valentine, an allergist at Johns Hopkins, half of those people...
...belong to gangs. "Each one is a mini crime wave, and together they are a major crime wave," says Reiner. Opinions vary on what role gangs played in the riots, but there is no doubt that they were involved. Several gang members have been charged in the near fatal beating of truck driver Reginald Denny. Last week 22 suspected members of a West L.A. gang were arrested on charges of looting an estimated $80,000 worth of high- tech equipment from a Korean-owned stereo store during the upheaval at the end of April. "Were the gangs involved?" says Reiner...
None of this doubt about larger meaning has deterred the press by a nanosecond. The story had elements to push almost anyone's emotional buttons. The Oedipal tinge of an affair between an adolescent and a man old enough to be her father. The Fatal Attraction echoes of a woman who supposedly would stop at nothing to possess the man she craved. The perennial conundrum of how a daughter from a nice and prosperous family might have gone so thoroughly wrong. New York City's three tabloid newspapers have covered the "Long Island Lolita" story with a thoroughness and imagination...
...savior of the Serbs who live outside Serbia's borders -- nearly one-third of the community -- that Milosevic entered the fray. His strategy has been simple -- and effective. He stirs up Serbs with talk of imminent genocide, then sets his proxies loose to "protect" them, with fatal consequences for Croats and Muslims. Yet he insists that his aim is not the creation of a Greater Serbia, only the preservation of Yugoslavia. "We don't want to be a puppet regime of any foreign force -- unlike some others in Yugoslavia," he says, referring to Croatia's close ties with Germany...
...that emerge from the frequent medical probings of the presidential physique suggest robust health. The greater question is, How does Bush really feel? Energy level and mood, which are not on the charts, are as important as blood pressure. John Kennedy's nagging backache surely encouraged his dark and fatal mood in the grim summer of 1961 and made him think a nuclear exchange with the Soviet Union lay ahead. Lyndon Johnson's downer after his gall-bladder operation may have resigned him to war in Vietnam. Actually, Bush confesses a few tiny signs of his age -- but mighty...