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Moreover, rheumatic fever now often strikes without warning. In the past the disease followed within weeks of painful streptococcal throat infections. But the majority of recent victims have experienced only mild symptoms of strep throat, if any. Thus parents have not become alarmed until after the persistent fever and tender joints characteristic of rheumatic fever begin. "If children don't have a clinical sore throat, no one thinks of strep," says Pediatrician Ellen Wald at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. As a result, youngsters have gone untreated even though doctors can usually prevent rheumatic fever with penicillin. Warns Jane Schaller...
...curious watcher of her own slightly out-of-focus life, preserved from the swamps of resentment and depression by mild fatalism and the occasional joint. Episodes are sifted and examined, but not retailed as anecdotes. Some really are conventional stories, or nearly so, with shape and some sort of resolution. Two or three are wholly shapeless, like twelve months out of twelve in the real world. The narrator meets a renowned Indian healer named Rolling Thunder, and nothing happens; then a crazed and menacing religious cultist, and nothing happens again. Even when the narrator's brain- dazed brother, an outlaw...
...calls to arms in the name of defending freedom around the globe. America's national morale curdled and began tumbling off into the unthinkable. The true unthinkable was that "Amerika," as those on the New Left dubbed it, was not merely mistaken or even bad, but evil. The mild unthinkable, entertained probably by most, was that the nation had made a bad mistake. Americans, who love a winner, detest thinking of themselves as losers, and they saw themselves distinctly as losers after Tet. Metaphysically, they may have thought that if America was a loser, God's grace had been withdrawn...
There was a peculiar precedent for her escape: in 1979 Sara Jane Moore, who tried to kill Ford just 17 days after Fromme's attempt, escaped from Alderson (Moore was recaptured only hours later and sent to a California prison). Fromme's flight surprised prison officials, particularly since the mild- mannered inmate had turned down an offer for a parole hearing in 1985. "She seemed O.K. to me," said Associate Warden Maureen Atwood. "But she's kind of strange." Authorities speculated that Fromme might have heard unconfirmed rumors that Manson was dying of cancer and become desperate...
...more painful because of the approaching holidays. Calling the accident a "national tragedy of harrowing proportions," President Corazon Aquino * ordered a full investigation and declared "strict sanctions must be imposed on all parties at fault." Unless Aquino pushes for a stricter law, the punishment promises to be mild: the government's Board of Marine Inquiry can levy fines of no more than...