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Rabbits & Duck Eggs. Pasteur's and later rabies vaccines are unique in being given after the victim has been infected. This is because the disease has an amazingly variable incubation period-from ten days to eight months in both man and dog. An infected animal is not literally "rabid" or dangerous until ten days before its inevitable death. If a rabid dog bites a child in the arm or leg, the virus will stay localized for weeks before it attacks his central nervous system. Doctors usually start daily injections of vaccine into abdominal muscle without delay. If the animal...
...without a male heir, directed that his daughter Isabella assume the crown. Her right to the throne was contested by Ferdinand's younger brother Don Carlos, and ever since, his descendants and their supporters have been trying bravely but futilely to seize power. The Carlists are the most rabid and fanatic rightists in Spain, and their political ideas seldom go beyond reviving the Inquisition. Though they view Franco as a woolly liberal, los Requetés, the rugged Carlist fighting men, nevertheless provided El Caudillo with some of the best battalions he ever had in the Spanish Civil...
...Panamanian leaders standing so inflexibly against the U.S. are not the usual run of Latin American leftists and rabid ultranationalists. President Roberto F. Chiari, his most influential ministers and all major candidates in the May 10 presidential elections are members of a deeply entrenched elite that has ruled Panama since it proclaimed independence from Colombia in 1903. They are wealthy, well educated, antiCommunist, vigorously competing among themselves for power-and finding the widely resented canal treaty an ideal target to call attention away from their own position...
...answer to "fidelismo," he asserts, is not military dictatorship and rabid anti-Communism but rather efforts toward representative democracy. He presents a list of seventeen major policy prescriptions, ranging from a guarantee of free trade and price stabilization agreements to serious shake-ups in the Alliance for Progress; he cautions that the Alliance should not be "a panicky series of loans and grants that will have no more permanent effect than a handout to an alcoholic beggar...
...these interknotted emotional geometries are really unusual for a mere movie set, where one or two rabid love affairs are about all that ever happen. Puerto Vallarta seems more like a New Jersey suburb...