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...Farmer Kevin Main's farrowing barn near Altona, Ill., the newborn piglets lay on their sides, their tiny feet paddling frantically in the air. A day later they were dead. "It was not a pleasant thing," Main recalls. "We lost over a hundred." Main's 480-swine herd had been hit by pseudorabies, a disease caused by a herpes virus that attacks the central nervous system of pigs, sheep, cattle and other animals. Nearly always fatal in young pigs, it causes symptoms ranging from disoriented wandering to skin lesions to convulsions, and can lead to reproductive failure in animals that...
...Pleasant as this official validation is for us, far more important are the accolades of hundreds of thousands of Kaplan "alums" like Harvard's Benjamin Reder, who said in your article, "I really do think [the Kaplan course] helps... but some people can't afford it." To correct the record on this issue as well, it should be emphasized that Kaplan does offer "scholarships" to qualified students. We do not anyone to be denied the competitive edge the Kaplan courses confer. Susan B. Kaplan New England Regional Administrator Stanley H. Kaplan Educational Center
...Maybe you're going to take a vacation. It's going to mean a big increase in real disposable income." Agrees Merrill Lynch Chief Economist Donald Straszheim: "The oil- price decline is like a blood transfusion to a wounded patient. As the victim pulls through, we'll see one pleasant surprise after another...
...such counterterror tactics conflict sharply with what one Italian airport official calls the "commercial philosophy" of Western airlines. Says an Interior Ministry official in Rome: "A commercial airport is asked to give tourists a pleasant, welcoming image. Is this consonant with stripping passengers, body checks and shaking out their clothes?" Such inconveniences on the ground may be the price that travelers pay for peace of mind...
...perhaps that's a good thing--a 5-4, extra-inning victory can be mighty pleasant in retrospect...