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...Astronomer G. Edward Danielson, 43, won the cosmic sweepstakes. Using Palomar Observatory's 200-in. telescope, they spotted Halley's comet as a faint moving dot in the constellation Canis Minor. The comet has not been seen since 1911. A year earlier, its fiery appearance caused a rash of doomsday forecasts and end-of-the-world parties...
...University buildings, robbing coin machines found in the basements, says B&G official Norman Goodwin. Most of the entrants, however, are simply curious students. "It would appear that the tunnels remain a continuing challenge to undergraduates," notes Tribble. Break-ins usually come in fits and starts--a small rash of entries followed by six to eight quiet months, he says...
...slaughter on the Rue des Roisiers was but one of the recent rash of terrorist attacks that have plagued France, and most particularly its Jews. With the war raging in Lebanon and the local Jewish community furious at what it perceives to be pro-PLO posturing by the government and the French press disparaging Israel, tempers were running short...
...Three-quarters of the U.S. population gets chicken pox by age 15. Most are never bothered by the virus again, though it will linger in their nervous systems for the rest of their lives. Some will not be so lucky. They will be victims of shingles, a painful, blistering rash that is triggered in adults when, for reasons unknown, the varicella-zoster virus reawakens...
...that prevents digestion of starchy substances, thereby allowing users to shed pounds even as they chow down on pasta, bread and pizza. Early this month, however, the FDA ordered more than 200 manufacturers and distributors to stop selling the pills, pending further research. The action was prompted by a rash of reports that users have experienced vomiting and diarrhea so severe that hospitalization was necessary in at least five cases. "God, did I get sick," remembers one Chicago woman in her 30s who was doubled over by agonizing intestinal pain that felt like an attack of appendicitis...