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...fundamental principle of good dressing Now, thanks to Miss Ciccone and others in her platinum-headed league of boy toys, even that gilded rule is rather flexible. Fashion is a silly thing. It actually matters very little whether chartreuse is indeed the new black or whether your pants have flare. Trying to capture the fashion of the moments can be like trying to catch a greased pig, only more expensive...
...stakes poker," Croatian President Franjo Tudjman decided not to extend the United Nations peacekeeping mandate in Croatia, which expires March 31. Diplomats fear that removing the buffer of 15,000 Blue Helmets could allow animosities between Croats and the Croatian Serbs or between Croatia and Serbian-ruled Yugoslavia to flare into renewed fighting...
...Middle East flare-up doesn't exactly set the perfect tone for the announcement expected tomorrow: that Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and P.L.O. Chairman Yasser Arafat have won the Nobel Peace Prize...
...outbreak of pneumonic plague in western India has killed 100 people and has sent 300,000 others fleeing from the city where it originated. The country's entire medical-care apparatus has been put on red alert at the flare-up of the contagious, deadly disease to prevent its spread to the nearby megalopolis of Bombay. An outbreak this serious hasn't occurred in India in two decades...
...Newspaper accounts publicized a startling flare-up of tuberculosis that was first detected last year at a high school in Westminster, California, a middle-class suburb of Los Angeles. The disease was apparently brought in by a 16-year-old Vietnamese immigrant who contracted it in her native country. Nearly 400 young people, or 30% of the school's students, have tested positive for the infection, and at least 12 have a variety of the TB bacterium that is resistant to standard antibiotic treatment. One student has lost part of her lung...