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...Marissa Blumenthal, public health officer at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, finds herself caught between micro and macro killers in Robin Cook's newest medical tingler. She must solve two mysteries: how an outbreak of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (mortality rate more than 90%) got from Central Africa to the U.S., and why it only strikes staff and patients at clinics with prepaid health-care plans. Physician-Novelist Cook enjoys stretching credulity (in his previous blockbuster Coma, people were murdered to provide organs for the transplant trade). Here a league of conservative doctors plays with the viral equivalent...
After Baker paid his respects to the leaders of both parties in Congress, Congressman Lynn Martin, vice chairman of the House Republican Conference, declared, "The fever's broken." Even conservative Congressman Jack Kemp observed that Baker had "brought a sense of calm to this place." Aware that right-wingers see him as a moderate too willing to compromise, Baker conceded that he expected "a lot" of pressure from them and added, "It's important that I have an active outreach to them." When Idaho Senator James McClure complained to Baker that the Senate Steering Committee had not met with Reagan...
...will force the Conservatives to clamp down on the number of mergers, which has gone up 160% in the past three years. Snaps Liberal Party Leader David Steel: "This endless shuffling about of assets has done nothing to improve the basic efficiency and capacity of British manufacturing." Already, takeover fever has abated. "There are no megabids running at all," says Kenneth Morton, an executive director with the Hill Samuel Group. "There's no doubt that people's attitudes have changed." Last month BTR, one of Britain's most aggressive raiders, backed away from a contested takeover of Pilkington, a highly...
...some extent, the world inside the skull corresponds to the world outside it, an interesting reconciliation. The inner eye and the outer eye may sometimes see the same image, the same dreamy beast standing under the fever tree. The sleeping and the waking become interchangeable. The actual and the psychic coincide...
...Calcium fever is sweeping the country, but scientists warn that it is no panacea for osteoporosis, the degenerative bone disease...