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...school lunch programs might be contaminated with hepatitis A sent parents and school officials scrambling to inoculate children. School and health officials in six states fear that thousands of students may have been exposed to a virus that, while not as dangerous as other forms of hepatitis, can cause mild liver infections. The strawberries were grown in Mexico and processed by Andrew and Williamson Sales of San Diego last spring. As A&W president Fred Williamson resigned Wednesday, Mexican agricultural officials went into damage-control mode, arguing that the berries were probably contaminated during processing and shipping. The only reported...
...major study of patients with mild heart attacks found that the death rate is significantly higher among those who are aggressively treated with ANGIOPLASTY or bypass surgery than those who are cared for more conservatively...
...counter the inflationary pressures of high demand and low unemployment. The Fed hopes tightening credit will produce a 'soft landing' for the nation's economy by slowing growth. Because Greenspan had hinted for months that a rise might be coming, Wall Street's reaction to the news was mild. Wondering whether the Fed would raise rates again at its May meeting, investors reversed a 47-point gain and sent prices back down for a 29 point dip by day's end. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond, used in determining consumer and business lending rates, increased only slightly...
...poster were anything to go by, Baal was to be an earnest, wrenching and dark drama of sunken sockets and deep grimaces. Weary of exactly such grand concepts and heavy emotions, the young Brecht wrote this play as a mild satire of late-nineteenth-century symbolist drama. This is not to say that the play is not be treated seriously but certainly not with the solemnity that the cast of Baal at the Loeb Ex did. In fact, many, especially amateurs, stay away from lyrical, intense tragedies on stage these days precisely because of the danger of ending...
...adorable, as the Boston Ballet's young dancers usually are. Even the company dancers won much applause, usually due to a particularly difficult set of pirouettes or jumps. But by the sixth variation on the same few classic moves and poses, the self-dubbed "international" flavor had faded from mild to Taco Bell strength. Boston Ballet should be more careful with their marketing techniques...