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It’s little wonder, then, that spring fever has become a very real phenomenon on campus, one which belies the residual chill in the April air. Much more than just a convenient way of explaining away lapses in concentration, this dizzying feeling of ferment and change seems a very real and very obvious response to what is a most disorientating time of year...
...makes for an explosive mix, and the unpredictable weather probably doesn’t help matters. Circumstances are stacked against us and there’s not much to be done to stop the rapid rate of change. When it comes to spring fever, maybe you’ve just got to play it out and let it burn, baby, burn...
...acetaminophen. But sometimes the problem is a kind of bacteria called group A streptococcus--or strep, for short. That's when antibiotics like penicillin or erythromycin come in handy. Early spring is a peak season for strep throat. If you have a sore throat that is accompanied by a fever but not a cough, your lymph nodes are swollen and there are yellow or white patches on your tonsils or the back of your throat, chances are, you have strep. The trouble is, most people with strep don't get all those symptoms. (A sore throat plus a runny nose...
...decades, the main reason to treat strep throat was to make sure it didn't turn into rheumatic fever, a serious illness that can damage the heart. The rule of thumb here is to give antibiotics within eight or nine days of the onset of symptoms, which is why you can afford to wait for the results of a throat culture. For reasons that are not clear, the incidence of rheumatic fever has dropped dramatically in most of the U.S. since the 1930s. And studies have shown that many adults get over mild strep infections without taking antibiotics. Children...
...Greek Cypriot leader urged his people to vote oxi (Greek for no) in the April 24 referendum on the latest United Nations plan to reunite the Greek and Turkish sides of the Mediterranean island. Since then, Greek Cypriots have taken up their President's call with fervor. Oxi fever is sweeping southern Cyprus: the slogan screams out from highway billboards, T shirts and posters; one hearse in Paphos drove to the graveyard with an oxi sticker on the windshield. From the pulpit, Cypriot Orthodox priests have pilloried the mild-mannered U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan as a "Judas" and branded...