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...Lethal Weapon...
...While Lethal Weapon (Chestnut Hill) does have some humorous moments in it, the really funny thing is how efficiently it exploits the supposedly normal moviegoing public. Guns, explosions, aircraft, firearms, things blowing up, helicopters, small arms, balls of hot expanding gas--Lethal Weapon is like a Borden Condensed Action Film, pasteurized to remove the sex. Having said this--and Dewitt thinks it needs to be said--Weapon is, despite its obviousness, an enjoyable film...
...complicated by TSS. Nine of the cases occurred during a major influenza outbreak in Minnesota in the winter of 1985-86. One occurred in Roanoke, Va., and an eleventh case, in Oregon, has since been reported to the CDC. Like the Athenian scourge, the two-part illness was lethal: six of the patients died. Langmuir says the apparent fulfillment of his prophecy had him "blown over like a feather...
Most animals have little to fear from the lethal AIDS virus. That is good for them but not for human beings, since other species are of little use to medical researchers seeking treatments and vaccines for the deadly disease. The limited value of research on baboons and chimpanzees, among other beasts, creates an urgency to move swiftly to tests on humans. Last week, after months of rumors within the scientific community, it was confirmed that this dramatic leap has been taken in vaccine research. In a letter in the British journal Nature, Dr. Daniel Zagury, an AIDS investigator...
...cease-fire, a first for the 18-year-old rebel insurgency. But the truce broke down last month amid bitter charges and countercharges. The Ministry of Defense estimates that at least 350 people have died since the fighting resumed. The violence often plays out in a lethal tit for tat. Last week, after government troops killed 13 guerrillas on the island of Mindanao, the rebels ambushed and killed 37 soldiers in two separate attacks. Meanwhile, a bomb ripped through the grandstand at the Philippine Military Academy in the resort town of Baguio. Since President Aquino was scheduled to attend...