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...China, according to some foreign health workers, the number of AIDS cases is increasing at a rate of 30% annually. Health authorities now concede that the official national figure of 20,098 HIV cases is a tiny fraction of the reality: around 600,000 cases. Following the usual pattern, the disease is spreading fastest among China's intravenous drug users and among an estimated 4 million to 10 million sex workers, most of whom don't insist their clients use condoms...
...survivors also said Williams should have been aware of a unique seismic pattern known as a tornillo, which had been suggested as a precursor of Galeras eruptions and which, in fact, showed up on monitoring equipment the morning of the fatal field trip. Williams says no one brought it to his attention and none of the other indicators showed anything abnormal...
Though 84 out of the 86 had eaten in the Cabot Dining Hall over the course of the weekend, Wang did not find a pattern in the meals eaten among those who reported symptoms...
...March of 1994, the ABCC permitted the Grille to pay a fine of $4,225.67 in lieu of the suspension--a pattern that became typical of the interaction between the Grille and city and state authorities. Since then, McCarthy has routinely taken advantage of the provision in both city and state procedure permitting establishments found in violation of the law to pay fines in lieu of license suspensions, paying about $12,000 over six cases, most recently $1,470 in lieu of a six-day suspension in June...
...which lasted less than three months. To find this kind of sustained drilling you have to stretch back to 1981, when the last vestiges of stagflation were being driven from the system along with The Dukes of Hazzard. A new generation is being introduced to the disheartening pattern of lower highs and lower lows...