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...bigger than a freckle, the tiny deer tick has sown panic from Montauk to Minneapolis as a carrier of Lyme disease -- an illness that has struck more than 71,000 Americans and left hundreds permanently disabled. Now the minuscule pest is causing even greater alarm. Scientists say deer ticks harbor yet another pathogen, which, unlike the one responsible for Lyme disease, can-in rare cases-actually kill a person in a matter of days...
...with which she convinced the world that she was the grieving victim of a dark-skinned stranger. But the cries for the death penalty, if not entirely silenced, have quieted. And instead of remaining amazed that a 23-year-old woman, to all outward appearances a loving mother, could harbor such profound unhappiness or anger, the people of Union now marvel that their quiet town could have been the scene of so many tawdry and desperate entanglements...
...many of them, including several prominent Baptist ministers in Harlem, threw a lavish ceremony last week to welcome ex-heavyweight champion Mike Tyson home from prison, despite howls of outrage from black feminists who charged that the much hyped ceremony was tantamount to enshrining brutality toward women. If blacks harbor such forbearance for a convicted rapist who has yet to repent his crime, it stands to reason that they will forgive fellow Christians who confess their sins, even if that admission seems too little and too late...
Gardens have always served as a handy mirror of American tastes and obsessions. For the Puritans a voluptuous flower bed was a sentimental waste or, worse, an attempt to improve on nature's creation. After Pearl Harbor, when America already grew enough food to feed half the world, 20 million people planted Victory gardens in 1943 in, among other places, a Portland, Oregon, zoo and a Chicago racetrack. Such mass gardening was supposed to help prevent juvenile delinquency, improve the national health and, in the process, "help beet the enemy." Ever since, Americans have found plenty of high moral fiber...
...have the same sexual orientation than other pairs of siblings. That same year, a California scientist reported slight brain differences between gay and straight men, although the conclusion is disputed. And in 1993, an NIH researcher found a stretch of DNA on the X chromosome that seemed to harbor one or more genes affecting sexual orientation. But no one has proved that a particular gene promotes gayness or has offered any convincing theory of how genes could influence a person's choice of sleeping partners...