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Investigation fever is building on Capitol Hill. Richard Shelby, former top Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, who complained that federal agencies like the CIA and countries like Saudi Arabia hampered the congressional probe into the Sept. 11 attacks, has a new angle. Term limits forced the Alabama Republican off the intelligence panel this year, but as new chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, he is setting up hearings aimed at terrorist funding. A Shelby aide says the hearings will have "the Executive Branch telling the committee what they've done with the Patriot Act," the post...
...settle the dispute. But their arguments go practically unreported, since the last of the independent television stations was closed down last month. Some suspect that Shchekochikhin himself may have been silenced, too. His death was bizarre and its cause remains unexplained. According to an aide, Shchekochikhin developed a slight fever on July 16 as he was en route to Ryazan, 300 km east of Moscow. When he returned home the next day, the fever worsened and his skin began peeling and breaking. When an ambulance was finally called a day later, he was so weak that...
...your doctor. Hypochondriacs beware: "It's not a self-diagnosis book, and people who use it as such probably aren't using it as we intended," says assistant editor Michael Berkwits. FYI: Kawasaki syndrome, discovered in Japan in the 1960s, may show up in small children as skin rash, fever and enlarged lymph nodes. --By Sora Song
...hard to set a price on Antarctica's allure, though. What British explorer Ernest Shackleton called "Antarctica fever" is there for all to see in the eyes of the Canadian, Australian and American guides on the Akademik Ioffe. It leads them back time and again to the great, blinding white south. It is also utterly contagious, for after a few days of this heartbreakingly beautiful landscape, pure light and incredibly clear water, no one is immune. Taking in the ethereal magnificence from the relative protection of my kayak (wet suit carefully donned), I felt like I had left the earth...
...CABIN FEVER Get the real scoop on "life in the freezer" from this site, diligently maintained by a gossipy (and anonymous) employee of McMurdo Station, Antarctica's largest base. Pages are packed with entertaining complaints about mail and food and lots of vicious, small-town backbiting...