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...barrier to infect humans, caused an epidemic and then never threatened us again--not without the discovery of a vaccine or cure to curtail the microbe. Some diseases, such as chicken pox, gradually become endemic to man and eventually result, if we are lucky, in nothing more than a mild childhood illness. Others, such as Ebola, retreat back to whatever animal reservoir they came from, stalking humanity from their hidden lair, only occasionally lashing out to bloody a village or crash a rural hospital. But diseases do not, as a rule, just go away...
...each other and decided to set up joint housekeeping--though, at her insistence, only on weekends. "We had our lovefests at my place," says Hilde, a lively community volunteer in Tamarac, Fla., a suburb of Fort Lauderdale. "But on Mondays I'd send him packing." Recently Joe suffered a mild stroke. Refusing to go into a nursing home, he moved into a little house across from Hilde's. She got it furnished, makes him dinner and continues to enjoy his companionship. "He still likes his sex," she says with a laugh, "though I'm not back...
...says that for mild to moderate depression, patients should have the choice of either a specific kind of short-term therapy, called cognitive-behavioral therapy, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medication, or sometimes both. This is the type of treatment offered at UHS, he says...
...Senator John Edwards puts the case most elegantly: "This is an Administration that rewards wealth, not work." Dick Gephardt is the protectionist tribune of the antique industrial unions. Aristocratic John Kerry rails effectively against "Benedict Arnold" corporations that set up headquarters overseas to avoid paying taxes at home. Even mild, moderate Joe Lieberman has a tax plan to soak the rich and further reduce taxes on the middle class. There may be some desperation in all this. Bush has taken issue after issue away from the Democrats. He has "reformed" education and given a prescription-drug benefit to the elderly...
...late December, Yi was sitting in his apartment in Hong Kong, on his leather sofa, watching his big-screen TV, smoking his Mild Seven cigarettes and wondering about his way forward. It was only a matter of time before another outbreak would occur, he now believed. There was simply too much interaction between humans and civets for this virus not to make the jump. But it could take months to get a paper peer-reviewed and published that could impact public health by encouraging the Guangdong government to curtail the civet population or at least limit contact between humans...