Word: midwest
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Most people who develop Lyme Disease, a tick-borne infection that's endemic in parts of the Northeast and Midwest, are easily cured by taking an antibiotic like doxycycline for a couple of weeks. But for years a debate has raged over what to do about patients whose symptoms (fatigue, mental confusion, joint pain) never seem to clear up. One small but vocal group of doctors and patient advocates believes that Lyme's corkscrew-shaped spirochetes have burrowed deep into their victims' bodies and can be eradicated only with intensive antibiotic treatment over many months. Another group believes, just...
...correcting some of the problems," says Bill Richardson, who was Bill Clinton's Secretary of Energy and is now teaching public policy at Harvard. Meanwhile, utilities may be adding new power plants to the grid at the rate of one a day. Richardson says the boost should enable the Midwest and Northeast to avoid blackouts this summer. And he expects the lights to stay on in New York City, which recently rushed emergency facilities into place...
...Evelyn (Rachel Weisz, co-star of The Mummy and its sequel) is a graduate student in art at a small college in the American Midwest. She meets Adam (Paul Rudd, an appealing young stage and screen veteran who played in Bash), a younger student working as a guard at the local museum, where Evelyn is thinking about spray-painting a penis onto the fig leaf adorning an otherwise nude statue. This first scene poses the question: Does this pretty provocateuse dare cross the line that separates propriety from artistic daring...
...History, put otherwise, happened extensively in other parts of the world; but in the Midwest it hadn't seemed to stick. If adventurous grade-school teachers took us back before the era of the fire it was to tales of the area's indigenous peoples, the Miami of the north and the Illiniwek of the south. Read through the problematic cipher of fifth-grade pedagogy this was hardly history; instead of forging some kind of connection with the past, it served to set the stage on and against which the future was peremptorily defined. European settlement and the Chicago fire...
...That's just California, right? If only. Most now agree that the Northeast too is vulnerable as folks flick on the AC. Some believe problems lurk even in the less densely populated Southwest and Midwest. Thus, a week shy of Memorial Day, many officials wish summer were already over...