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...risks of its own. The problem lies with the nature of the chicken-pox virus. After you get it, you always have it in your body. Normally you only suffer from chicken pox once, but the virus can flare up again later in life, producing shingles, a painful skin rash. The vaccine is a weakened form of the virus, and it too may be harbored in the body forever. The debilitated virus could conceivably spring to life years after the vaccination, and no one knows what damage might occur. Another danger is that the vaccine may not confer lifelong immunity...
Sure, Saddam Hussein is a very bad man. Buy why did President Clinton wait until two weeks ago to react against "a recent rash of terrorist activity." Perhaps it has something to do with his new sobriquet, the "43 Percent President." Why is popularity so important to a person just beginning a guaranteed four-year term...
...explain the rash of faked complaints and scams in the Pepsi scare? Such bogus reports often break out after an initial believable case is given wide publicity. Sometimes it's a simple craving for attention or a prank. A 21-year-old man arrested last week in Branson, Missouri, admitted that he'd lied about finding a hypodermic needle in a Pepsi can "to see what the police department would do." A 62-year-old California woman confessed to police that she fabricated a similar story as a joke on her daughter...
...rash of on-the-job Harassment complaints among Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) security guards has been nothing short of appalling. But recent evidence that Chief Paul Johnson may be sanctioning reprisals against department whistle-blowers is for more omnious, If many security guards' accusations are true, Johnson has been doing every thing he can to undermine the new harassment investigation by the general counsel's office...
...National Crime Information Computer has recently reported a rash of thefts of outboard motors along the Charles River, Harvard police said...