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...year-old Pvt. David Lewis of Fort Dix, New Jersey. He was found to have been killed by “swine flu,” a virus thought to resemble the one responsible for the 1918 flu pandemic. On the advice of worried health officials, president Gerald Ford ordered the implementation of a mass inoculation program. Unfortunately, reports surfaced that the vaccine was causing people to develop an autoimmune disorder and had resulted in several deaths. The program ended abruptly on Dec. 16. Thirty years later, swine flu has reemerged as a prime health concern, with...
...subversive" activities (in addition to being politically progressive, Lorca was gay). He was later taken from his cell and pushed into the back of a Civil Guard squad car. What happened after that remained a mystery until years later. In the 1950s and '60s, writers Gerald Brenan and Ian Gibson interviewed witnesses who said that Lorca had been driven outside the city with three other prisoners to a ravine between the towns of Viznar and Alfácar. The four were shot and buried in a mass grave. (See pictures of Spain...
...illegal insider trading is hardly a clear one. Technically, no laws ban trading on non-public information; prosecutions are based on legal theories that were developed in earlier court cases. "It's one of those areas where the courts say, 'I know it when I see it,' " says Gerald Lefcourt, a white-collar criminal defense lawyer in New York and past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. (See pictures of the top 10 scared stock traders...
...massively in coal-fired electricity plants, the primary source of CO2 emissions, to meet its surging power demands. Overall, in 2009 China will probably add about 80 to 100 gigawatts of capacity to its electricity grid, and 75% to 80% of that will be from coal. In effect, says Gerald Page, managing director of Equinox Energy Partners in Beijing, a venture capital firm, China is adding 1 gigawatt of coal-fired capacity every five days. And that's not going to change anytime soon. (See pictures of the making of modern China...
...something done there. We needed seven points to win the game.”In the final frame, Randolph again showed why he’s the two-time defending Conference Player of the Year. With just over 11 minutes to play, he connected with an open Gerald Mistretta, who completed the 45-yard touchdown pass. The whole series lasted only nine seconds, and the worn-down Harvard offense returned to the field needing to make up 14 points. And despite falling into another fourth-down situation—this time with 14 yards to go—Harvard again...