Word: fevered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...chimps are particularly prized for their size and scarcity. Villagers helped carry the primate back to Mayibout, where it was skinned, cooked and eaten. There the festivities ended. Within a week, nearly all those who had prepared the animal for the pot had fallen ill with a high fever. Some began bleeding from the eyes and mouth. By last week, 13 were dead...
JONATHAN LARSON WAS LOOKING TIRED and pale all week, but it might have been just the stress of preparing for the opening of his new musical, Rent. Twice he went to the hospital, complaining of chest pains and a fever; his trouble was diagnosed as food poisoning, and he was given a battery of tests. He managed to drag himself to the last dress rehearsal, but colleagues were concerned: Larson, who rode his bicycle even on the coldest winter days, came in a taxi. "You could see he was trying to conserve his strength," says director Michael Greif. The next...
...VIEWED BY MANY in Hollywood and on Wall Street as among the pre-eminent media minds of his generation, a man who built the Fox Network, mentored both Michael Eisner and Jeffrey Katzenberg, and brought the world Saturday Night Fever and The Simpsons--for a man who has accomplished all that and made himself hundreds of millions of dollars in the process, Barry Diller sure acts as if he has something left to prove...
Cooking with gas, British researchers say, appears to increase a woman's--but not a man's--risk of developing respiratory ills such as wheezing, asthma and hay fever. Women may simply be more susceptible to the by-products of gas combustion--or they may just spend more time at the stove...
They're talking about it in the Bundestag and they're petrified of it in Beijing. In Washington, DC, they like it, but fear it will spiral out of control. Governments around the globe have caught Internet fever and are struggling to regulate this new electronic behemoth...