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...remained critically ill. In all, 150,000 people were treated at hospitals and clinics in Bhopal and surrounding communities. Most of the dead had succumbed because their lungs had filled with fluid, causing the equivalent of death by drowning. Others had suffered heart attacks. The disaster struck hardest at children and old people, whose lungs were either too small or too weak to withstand the poison. A number of the survivors were permanently blinded, others suffered serious lesions in their nasal and bronchial passages. Doctors also noticed concussions, paralysis and signs of epilepsy, suggesting, they said, the presence of some...
...however soon is distracted from Fritz to a small table a top which stands a beautiful little man a special gift to the children from their father. Soon everybody is admiring the little smiling man feeding him a steady stream of nuts. Fritz though feeds him the largest and hardest nuts which soon break the nutcracker's jaw. Marie is consoled only when her parents allow her to remain alone in the parlor caring for the injured nutcracker...
...prospect of ballooning deficits well into the next decade, the President is trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor. His plane call for a $42 billion reduction in the deficit with most of that savings being carved out of already beleaguered programs. Among those services hardest hit are Medicare, which faces a $19 billion cut over the next three years, financial aid for college students, which will be frozen at current levels, and many programs for urban and rural development now likely cancelled altogether...
...This is the hardest place in the nation for us to get a point," Blair said...
Harvard's next four games constitute the hardest part of its schedule. And Wednesday's hookup with Boston College (7:30, Briggs Athletic Center) promises to be the toughest of the year...