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...notorious flare-up in Gloucestershire, England, of what the press dubbed flesh-eating bacteria alerted people to the dangers of streptococcus-A infections. The common bacteria that cause strep throat generally produce no lasting harm if properly treated, but certain virulent strains can turn lethal. Strep-A infections claim thousands of lives each year in the U.S. and Europe alone...
...most part, the month-long cease-fire agreed to on June 15 by Bosnia's warring parties held. Among several flare-ups along the front: the area around Bihac, where Bosnian government forces fought a group of Muslim rebels who have declared an independent fiefdom. Meanwhile, Croatian President Franjo Tudjman visited Sarajevo to discuss a newly formed Bosnian federation of Muslims and Croats...
...these pernicious cases, Clinton has opted for a holding action. Over the next month or two, the crises will flare up again, perhaps in more virulent form. By then the new sanctions on Haiti may have proved just as ineffectual as the old ones. Despite a promised four-week cease-fire, the Bosnian government and the Serbs may refuse to settle for their allotted percentages...
...others, we spot our quarry: 13 Cubans standing up in two makeshift rafts, waving, yelling, laughing, crying as we circle overhead. The Cessna swoops down to a mere 50 ft. above the waves. Domaniewicz shouts over the engines, telling me to open the cabin window and drop a flare; the orange smoke will guide the U.S. Coast Guard to the rafters' position. The scene is a blur as we fly by; only later will we learn that a shark had been circling one of the rafts...
...responding to the chaos in the world, is America using its heart but not its head? Powerful images have a tendency to stir people to bursts of indignation that flare briefly and ineffectually...