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Though it is rarely fatal, can be controlled by antibiotics and struck only 5,000 people nationwide last year, Lyme disease has become as dreaded as the black plague. Two weeks ago, the hysterical overreaction to the tick-borne affliction reached a new peak. Obsessed with fear that he had contracted Lyme disease when he was bitten by ticks on fur-trapping expeditions over the years and then passed it along to his spouse, a 73-year-old man killed his wife and then himself with a twelve-gauge shotgun in their East Detroit home...
...FATAL ADDICTIONS (NBC, Aug. 9, 10 p.m. EDT). The title refers to a range of American bad habits, from drugs to gambling. Host Maria Shriver will survey the problem in this NBC News special...
...Janeiro, Mexico City, San Juan and New Delhi. This makes Hwang the first U.S. playwright to become an international phenomenon in a generation, since the heyday of Edward Albee. Dozens of film companies have bid for the rights. Says Hwang: "I guess the play is the thinking person's Fatal Attraction, a reflection of the fear between men and women and a kind of intellectual striptease. It's also about the West's fear of how its relationship with the East is changing. Sophisticated American whites realize their group is in the process of changing from an outright majority...
...Moyer went to Beijing in mid-May, it was for what he considered a "simple assignment": to cover the visit of Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. Very quickly, says Moyer, "it became obvious that the story was the cry for democracy in Tiananmen." His assignment stretched into weeks, until the fatal night of the military crackdown. "No picture is worth risking your life for," says Moyer, "but at night everyone just went out, snapping away, oblivious to the dangers...
BEHAVIOR: A fatal obsession with the stars...