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...most patients, a bout of flu means a few missed days of work or school. But for people 65 and over and for those who have chronic heart or respiratory problems, diabetes, asthma or weakened immune systems, the disease can easily be fatal. Less able to fend off infections, these individuals are more susceptible to bronchitis, pneumonia and, occasionally, kidney failure and heart attacks. In an average year, flu is a factor in about 20,000 deaths in the U.S. The majority of A-Shanghai victims have been elderly, and all 50 states have discovered outbreaks in nursing homes...
Several Cambridge city councillors have speculated that the report was issued during the state budget crisis in order to fend off requests for additional aid. But city officials said yesterday that the timing of the report was irrelevant...
Meanwhile the District is left to fend for itself, its neighborhoods echoing with gunfire from drug dealers, its hospitals increasingly overburdened by abandoned, drug-addicted newborns and many other babies who die before their first birthday...
...quirky impulses. Ceausescu made his wife Elena his deputy, and she not only draped herself in furs and jewelry but also used the police to spy on her grown daughter's love life. According to U.S. Army investigators, Noriega practiced Santeria, a mystic religion, and wore red underwear to fend off the evil...
...Southeast Asia and the Pacific Rim want a permanent, visible American military presence in that region as a counterbalance to China and Japan. That is a bit like suggesting, as many are suddenly doing, that now more than ever the world needs NATO -- and the Warsaw Pact -- to fend off the specter of German reunification and remilitarization. New rationales are being concocted for old arrangements...