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...Pressler fever is not exactly burning up the prairies. Despite his lofty education, Pressler has long had a reputation in Washington as an intellectual lightweight, a rap that is by now well known to the voters back home. And critics in South Dakota say their senior Senator, after 18 years of cozying up to lobbyists, has "gone Washington." Six years ago, he scraped by with a 19,000-vote victory against an underfunded Democrat...
...Harvard will be like in the months before the election. For those of you who missed it, either because you didn't have time to go or because you weren't interested, get involved. Watch a debate, presidential or senatorial. Go to the I.O.P. Hold a sign. Catch the fever...
What if several decades from now global warming causes such swings in temperature to occur more often? That possibility alarms marine scientists, because bleaching--the coral equivalent of running a fever--can be fatal. In 1983 a particularly severe bleaching episode killed 95% of the corals off the Galapagos Islands. Global warming could also trigger more intense hurricanes, scientists fear. And while healthy reefs would no doubt recuperate from the pummeling, sick reefs might not. "What we worry about," says Smithsonian marine biologist Nancy Knowlton, "is a threshold effect, when so much stress piles up that all of a sudden...
...same time, the human defensive perimeters were crumbling. Underfunded prevention programs, along with excessive antibiotic use that led to drug resistance, were allowing diseases like TB, dengue fever, bacterial meningitis, yellow fever, cholera, malaria and even the dreaded plague to return. By the early 1990s there was a panicky feeling in the air that the microbes were exacting their revenge--and that humanity could do very little about...
This is where the hantavirus was identified, where Ebola and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and South American Junin virus are all studied for clues to how to stop them. And it is here at the CDC that a new, deadly flu virus would be sent so scientists could race against time to develop a vaccine...