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Wash it away it most certainly did, winning at least 31 medals, 15 of them gold, in ten sports, far more than Chinese officials had hoped for. At home, Olympic fever gripped the country. Four hours of television coverage were broadcast every day. China had thrilled to the exploits of its gymnasts (second in the men's team competition, third in the women's, five golds in individual events), and then, last week, anxiously awaited the finals between its women's volleyball team, world champions in 1982, and the U.S. Factories and offices came to a stop...
...Angeles Bureau Chief Benjamin Cate caught his touch of Olympic fever at a TIME reception in Beverly Hills for the opening of the Games. There he was privileged to perform an unusual introduction: "We had invited Bill and Evelyn Lewis, Carl's parents, and Mrs. Ruth Owens, widow of Jesse Owens," Cate recalls. "They had never met, but they greeted one another like long-lost friends and chatted together for the better part of an hour...
...Juanita Hollands, 38, a bookkeeper at Radio Shack, the fever arrived with the flame. "It didn't seem real to me until I saw the torch," she said from her place in a ticket line. "Now I want to go to every event." It seemed that the only lines in town were for Olympic tickets; officials said they had already surpassed their $90 million projection by $30 million, and that sales were at 80%, compared with 62% in Montreal...
...ancient battle against malaria and the insect that carries it, the female Anopheles mosquito. Peruvian Indians discovered the first important weapon: the bark of the Cinchona tree. For centuries the bark and its derivative, quinine, were the only means of preventing and treating malaria's waves of fever, which can recur erratically and weaken victims for years. Gin and tonic, originally made with quinine, is said to have been developed by British colonialists as a way of making their daily doses more palatable...
...first was the complex life cycle of the Plasmodium parasite, which is in a sense three bugs in one (see diagram): the sporozoite, which enters the human bloodstream when an infected mosquito bites; the merozoite, which invades the red blood cells and causes the disease's chills and fever; and the gametocyte, which, when ingested by a biting mosquito, reproduces inside the insect and yields a new generation of sporozoites...