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Officials closed schools, halted air traffic and attempted a quarantine in a 120-mile radius around the city of Kikwit as the deadlyEbola viruscropped up in two more towns. In an effort to keep the virus from spreading beyond the four afflicted towns to Kinshasa, the capital 370 miles to the west, officials tried to close all road, river and air routes out of the affected area. The World Health Organization maintains that the nature of Ebola does not require such drastic measures, since the virus kills within a few days, preventing carriers from spreading it very widely. TIME science...
...Tony Throne the work is only beginning. Throne, a local street performer, pounds on his drum set--a homemade contraption of plastic buckets and dented metal casserole dishes--in front of the Coop. Though most people hurry by Throne with scarcely a glance, no one within a three-block-radius is oblivious to the seemingly incessant pounding of his bass bucket. Pimply pit rats nod their heads in cool appraisal of the rhythm; an elderly lady plugging her ears shoots Throne a contemptuous glare as the scurries by; a yuppie-ish man in a suit drops a bill into Throne...
...antiabortion zealot 275 miles away in Pensacola, a circuit judge acted: he replaced a limited injunction against clinic violence at Aware Woman with one of the most severe arrangements in the country. In addition to the 36-ft. taboo zone, he forbade protesters within a 300-ft. radius to approach patients and employees unless invited, and he drew an equally large circle around the houses of clinic staff. Madsen and others sued, claiming that the injunction infringed on free speech, was skewed against pro-life sentiment and was too overreaching. Mathew Staver, their lawyer, noting that 300 ft. is almost...
Under heavy pressure from NATO, the U.N., President Clinton and -- most important -- their Russian allies, the Bosnian Serbs pledged their compliance with a NATO ultimatum to either withdraw their weapons from within a 12-mile radius of Sarajevo or turn them over to U.N. peacekeepers. At week's end U.N. observers were reporting "very significant withdrawals of Bosnian-Serb forces." However, there were new reports of Serb atrocities in other parts of Bosnia, particularly near the town of Banja Luka. In a Saturday address, Clinton warned that "American pilots and planes stand ready" to join in NATO air strikes around...
Harvard Square is hardly notorious for a shortage of America's favorite semi-Italian food. Previously, Harvardians could find seven pizzerias within a four-block radius on and around JFK Street...