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...spray can. When Kit isn't complaining about the heat or the stupidity, she is sleeping with the twit. A local prostitute tries to steal Port's wallet, and a loathsome Englishman filches his passport. What other atrocities can he imagine? Perhaps that he will sweat out a typhoid fever in a miserable cell in a Foreign Legion garrison? Or that his wife will lose her wits as the love slave of the sheik of Araby...
When Americans sit down to their Thanksgiving turkey this week, some uninvited guests could turn a nice meal into a miserable occasion. If the big bird is not thoroughly cooked, it could pass on bacteria that cause fever, stomach cramps, vomiting, diarrhea -- all the classic symptoms of food poisoning. Often the culprit is salmonella, a nasty microbe that, despite industry and government inspections, lurks in perhaps 35% of all poultry sold...
...that 400 people of varying backgrounds check every SAT question during 10 review stages and eliminate any that are found to be biased. "To say these tests are biased because results vary," says Gary Saretzky, chief of ETS's sensitivity-review process, "is like blaming the thermometer for the fever...
...criticism has not reached the fever pitch of the 1970s, when Big Oil's "obscene" profits inspired a wave of legislative controls. The oil companies contend that they have heeded President Bush's admonition to show restraint at the gas pump. In fact, while oil prices at the end of last week stood at about $33 per bbl., or 65% higher than they were just before Iraq invaded Kuwait, average U.S. gasoline prices were only 31% higher, or $1.38 per gal. for unleaded regular. Said Holly Hutchins, a spokesman for Shell Oil: "We gave up a considerable amount...
Those suspicions are not unfounded. A senior White House official suggested last week that the Administration was trying to encourage the widespread throw-the-bums-out attitude toward congressional incumbents -- the vast majority of them Democrats -- to boost the chances of Republican challengers. Asked if the anti-incumbent fever might not topple some G.O.P. members of Congress, the official confidently predicted, "I think they feel strong enough to withstand it." Many Republican strategists are not so sanguine. They fear that in next week's voting the Republicans may lose more than 10 House seats, the average for the party that...