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Last week nine strangers equipped with scant food and a gallon of water among them were deposited on an uninhabited, mosquito-infested island off the Florida Keys, clueless as to when they'd be leaving. No, it wasn't the first episode of Survivor II, but rather the second attempt of Cuban baseball slugger ANDY MORALES to reach U.S. soil. Six weeks ago, the stellar third baseman tried to defect but was plucked from the sea and hauled back to his homeland, where a year earlier Castro had personally congratulated him for hitting the winning home run in an exhibition...
...Palm Beach, Fla., received some unusual visitors last Tuesday. Steven Whitsett, 28, of Pembroke Pines, and Clifford Burkhart, 23, of Hollywood, Fla., were drenched and dirty, having crawled out of the waters of a canal at the club's north end. For 26 hours, the duo had slogged through mosquito-infested swamps inhabited by wild boar, alligators and rattlers. Now they were facing arrest after a dramatically botched helicopter escape from a nearby "treatment center," where Whitsett, a convicted child molester, had been detained under a controversial Florida law. Burkhart was his would-be rescuer and former lover...
...follow the preventive measures listed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on its website at www.cdc.gov/travel (Allow at least a month before departure for some shots to "take.") In April, the health agency reported that a 48-year-old California man died of yellow fever--a mosquito-borne infection that is often accompanied by a yellowing of the skin--eight days after returning from an adventure trip to South America. Although he had been vaccinated against tetanus, typhoid and hepatitis A, he hadn't been inoculated against yellow fever...
...Always think of the alternative - to stay there another 15 years? And if the Israel Defense Forces were weak, the real weakness would project itself. But since they are very strong, I'm not afraid. And they'll become stronger. Why? Because they are not running after every mosquito. I didn't see a single armed force that became stronger or a nation that became more self-confident by fighting guerrillas in another country. Leadership must look open-eyed at reality, even if there is some cruelty in that...
...Freetown from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright last October to encourage him to keep the peace. But the international community failed to read the glaring signs that the RUF had no intention of laying down the weapons that were the source of their political and economic power. "General Mosquito" Bokarie, the rebels' chief field commander, chastised Sankoh for making peace, ordered his men to hold onto their weapons, and warned the U.N. troops who'd come to disarm them to keep their distance. Sankoh fired Bockarie late last year, but the commander fled to Liberia, where he began to organize...