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...employ terrorism against Israel, that he favors cuts in aid to Israel and that Israel must agree to halt all settlement activity in the occupied territories before the U.S. would approve $400 million in loan guarantees for housing Soviet Jewish immigrants. Two days later, President Bush raised the fever in Jerusalem by stating that he opposes settlements not only in the territories but also in East Jerusalem...
...child's body turns rigid, the eyes roll back, and the limbs begin to jerk. These are the frightening signs of a febrile seizure. Triggered by a high fever, often during an infectious illness such as tonsillitis or flu, this type of convulsion is caused by violent nerve storms in the brain. About 130,000 of the 4 million children born each year in the U.S. will have at least one febrile seizure by the time they turn seven...
...comes in winter and is harder to dodge than a speeding snowball. This year the debilitating and sometimes deadly scourge of influenza is unusually virulent. So many people have taken to their bed with chills, aching muscles and fever that doctors are overwhelmed, offices are decimated, and some schools have temporarily shut their doors. Nearly 8,100 Americans, most of them elderly, are known to have died of flu and flu-related illnesses, and the figure is rising daily. The Centers for Disease Control has officially declared it an epidemic, the worst outbreak...
...classic symptoms of flu, which begin to appear about 48 hours after exposure to the virus, include a sudden fever, chills, sore throat, headache, muscle pains, lethargy and a persistent dry cough. Although most of the symptoms subside after two to three days, victims remain contagious for an additional three or four days...
Gorbachev has come under increasingly shrill attack from radicals and conservatives alike for letting the country drift into chaos and disorder. Store shelves are empty, crime is rising, virtual civil war has flared in the Caucasus, secessionist fever has infected the Baltics -- and as far as many Soviets are concerned, all that party members and parliamentarians have done is gather for mass talkathons. There have even been calls from both Gorbachev's foes and his supporters for an "iron hand" to take control. The conservative daily Sovetskaya Rossiya complained last week that the Kremlin's brand of reform has been...