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...illness that is baffling * scientists and panicking the 175,000 residents of the 17 million-acre Navajo nation. So far, 18 people have been struck with what is being called "unexplained adult respiratory-distress syndrome." Almost all the victims have lived on or near the reservation, which stretches across northwestern New Mexico and into Arizona and Utah. Of the 11 who have died, nine are Indians. The outbreak came to light last month, when a young Navajo man fell ill on his way to the funeral of his 24-year-old girlfriend, who had died from a curious flulike ailment...
...living wills never made it onto their hospital charts. "It's easy to say the patient doesn't really understand because he's never been in this situation before and therefore doesn't know what the treatment is all about," says Dr. David Orentlicher, a professor of medicine at Northwestern University. "It's also easy to say to a relative that the patient never really anticipated in his living will this specific situation...
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...schools included in the survey were the University of California at Berkeley, Duke, Northwestern, Stanford, University of California at Los Angeles, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Texas at Austin and the eight institutions schools of the Ivy League. The survey was compiled by the Office of the Assistant to the President for Affirmative Action...
FORGET ABOUT WHETHER AN ERRANT COMET, ANGRY volcano or invidious virus killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Scientists have still not explained how the Saurian dynasty got started or why it dominated the earth for more than 150 million years. The discovery in northwestern Argentina of the fossilized skeleton of a 10-kg (22-lb.) carnivore that is 230 million years old may help paleontologists begin to solve the mystery. In the British journal Nature, researchers from the University of Chicago and the National University of San Juan, Argentina, report that the dog-size predator is the most primitive...