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...mosquitoes carrying the St. Louis encephalitis virus, a particular menace to the elderly, though usually in the South. Tissue analysis by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention seemed to confirm the suspicion. As the tally rose, the city began an anti-mosquito spraying program in a 4-sq.-mi. area of Queens. That quick action seemed to contain the epidemic...
...beauty, still pristine and fragile. But around 750 miles to the south lies Prince William Sound, the site of one of the world's worst oil-spill disasters a decade ago when the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground and dumped 11 million gallons of syrupy crude, creating a 500-mi.-long oil slick. Since BP Amoco is the largest oil producer in the region, it's not surprising that environmental activists closely monitor its oil-exploration operations there. Last year Paul Wenman spent several weeks trudging around the Alaskan tundra to see just how well the firm had implemented...
HAVE SU LAWYER CALL MI LAWYER...
...Russian-made Mi-8 helicopter along with about ten journalists from CNN, the BBC, AP and other news outlets, being taken to the site where India yesterday shot down a Pakistani plane. We were flying over an exquisite but weird landscape, that has been turned into hundreds of miles of waterlogged marshland by the monsoons. From the air it would be impossible to tell where one country ends and the other begins, which may explain how some of these incidents happen...
Prodded in part by pressure from Davi and his supporters, Brazil in 1991 set aside 36,000 sq. mi. as a Yanomami homeland. Now mining interests and loggers want the territory cut into patches totaling 7,700 sq. mi. "They want us corralled like animals," says Davi. So when the radio in his hut calls him to a new battlefront, Davi is ready to go, no matter how far it takes him from the spirit world of forest and river...