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Running nose. raging fever. Aching joints. Splitting headache. Are there any poor souls suffering from the flu this winter who haven't longed for a pill to make it all go away? Relief may be in sight. Researchers at Gilead Sciences, a pharmaceutical company in Foster City, California, reported last week in the Journal of the American Chemical Society that they have discovered a compound that can stop the influenza virus from spreading in animals. Tests on humans are set for later this year...
...Ebonic fever is the term that I use to describe the current national obsession with the American dialect spoken mostly by the black lower-class community. The dialect has been identified and studied for years, but only in small academic circles. Only since the recent decision by the Oakland, Calif. school board to officially recognize Ebonics as a second language has the public at large cared about it, or even bothered to listen to the academics. Since then, Ebonics has made the front page of every major newspaper across the country, has been the main subject on every major news...
...effect of this new fever is to pull the divide between race and class further apart, and faster. Take a close look at where Ebonics is being debated and examined: Time, Newsweek, the college debate teams and op-ed sections of the papers. Who reads and writes these articles and who participates in these debates? More importantly, how is the dialect explained and portrayed...
...year was 1988, and election fever had hit my middle school. Perhaps envious of the public schools that actually got to close on election day and proudly house voting booths, someone came up with the idea of transforming our cafeteria into a fake polling place, complete with actual levers to pull. Statements of platforms were distributed, and we watched and discussed the debates in detail. As election day approached, I weighted my choices carefully and was a little nervous when I got to school that...
...close to realization by July 16, when the Dow had tumbled as low as 5,182.31, off 10 percent from its May peak. But the Federal Reserve's decision to hold the line on interest rates reassured investors in September, bringing the current rise toward 6,000. Meanwhile, investment fever continues to rise as fast as the market. According to the Federal Reserve, last year for the first time in decades the value of household stockholdings outweighed home equity. More than one adult in three now owns stock directly, through a mutual fund or through a savings plan such...