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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...
...Costa enrolled in EDISCA, and the school changed her life, as it has the lives of 800 other girls ages 6 to 19--and a few boys--from Fortaleza, a coastal city in Brazil's poverty-racked northeast. The school was founded in 1992 by Dora Andrade, 42, a dancer who cut short her career in the U.S. to come home and teach girls to dance their way out of the slums. Most of the children who enter EDISCA can't read or write. Many have health problems and are close to running away from violent homes or being lured...
...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...
...Throughout the year, the Crimson was guided by co-captain Davin Chew, senior Mark Lee and sophomore Tom Weisman in the epee. Co-captain Eugene Chew and sophomore Derek Lindblom, meanwhile, led the charge in the epee. At the Northeast Fencing Conference Meet in November, Lindblom won nine bouts, while Chew, Lee and Cha each registered eight victories...
...Ghazal's double's partner Bajin took this year as an opportunity to assert herself among the top singles players in the Northeast. After an early loss to Columbia's Suzanne Wright in Harvard's first Ivy League match of the season, Bajin lost only one more set all year (against Penn). She anchored the team from the number one singles' spot all season and will return in 2002 looking for her third straight selection to the Ivy League first team...