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Concentrated Devastation. Mid-July temperature records were cracked in more than a dozen cities, making newspaper weather listings read like hospital-ward fever charts. Before the heat wave began to break at week's end, New York sizzled through nine straight days of above-90° temperatures; Boston, six; Chicago, eleven; Washington, ten. In a normal year, about 175 Americans die from the effects of hot weather. This year the count is just beginning, but the latest Red Cross estimate is that several hundred have died from the heat-and it's a long, long time from...
...glass windows, scooped up everything they could carry, and destroyed what they could not. First they went for clothing, TV sets, jewelry, liquor; when that was cleaned out, they picked up food, furniture and drugs. Said Frank Ross, a black police officer in Bedford-Stuyvesant: "It's like a fever struck them. They were out there with trucks, vans, trailers, everything that could roll...
...first the damage may be relatively minor: a slight fever, fatigue and the reddish rash, which often takes a "butterfly" shape across the nose and cheeks. But as SLE progresses, severe inflammation may occur in the joints, hair fall out, and sores appear in the mouth, nose, throat and vagina. Unless lupus is somehow contained-or undergoes spontaneous remission-the heart and blood vessels may be damaged. The kidneys could begin to fail, and even the central nervous system can be affected...
...Allen, a nurse, and Dr. Rodney Cline, a physician, both of whom happened to be aboard the train, delivered the woman's second son. The nurse became the child's godmother, the doctor forevermore the stuff of baseball trivia. Rod was a sickly child who contracted rheumatic fever when he was twelve. His resulting weakness drew his father's alternating scorn and uninterest. His uncle, Joseph French, a recreation official and Little League coach in Panama, became a kind of foster father, taking the boy to ball games and encouraging him as he grew stronger...
...have heard of Maltese terriers. Malta fever is now called brucellosis. I know how to make a Maltese cross and am well acquainted with Maltese pillows; but a Maltese omelette...