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...warning signals in both pets and wild animals. Loss of coordination, increased aggressiveness or even a strange meow or bark in an unvaccinated pet may be a sign that it should be confined and watched for 10 days. When confronted with a wild animal behaving unnaturally, people should resist the impulse to help and should notify the police. In fact, all wildlife should be observed from a distance. Says Dr. Mark Chassin, New York State health commissioner: "If a nocturnal animal like a raccoon is on a main street at noon in New York, one should assume it's rabid...
...even the insidest insiders resist the obvious implication that they use networking--rather than the strength of their arguments--to persuade legislators. One Senate committee has frustrated past efforts by the vitamin industry to fend off increased federal regulations. So one industry association hired a former employee of the committee chair to press its case...
...that they keep the garage immaculate. Oil spills were mopped instantly, while car parts were piled like groceries -- in perfect stacks. Ever wily, he split his operation into distinct divisions: thieves and choppers. No one but Wills knew the complete workings of the business. Still, the boss could not resist the occasional bit of brazen bravado. Detectives trailing him once saw Wills calmly lean out the window of a hot 1970 yellow Corvette to banter with a policeman...
Financial considerations aside, there are some real medical issues to resolve. Perhaps the most serious is the concern that widespread use of antibiotics in the mouth could create super-virulent strains of gum-ravaging bacteria that would resist any attempts at treatment. "A lot of the new therapies are just at the tinkering, research stage right now," says Ray Williams, chairman of Harvard University's periodontal department. Until the gum-disease treatments get FDA approval, most people's options will remain the same as always: brush, floss and visit the dentist regularly -- or face the knife...
...multiethnic state. He had held out against U.N. demands that he sign on to a plan partitioning Bosnia into 10 ethnic provinces. Now, under heavy pressure from the U.N., and from U.S. special envoy Reginald Bartholomew, who promised him substantial financial aid for his new mini- state, he could resist no longer. He accepted a plan to cut his country apart along ethnic lines. "We have achieved preliminary agreement," he told his people, "on the transformation of Bosnia and Herzegovina into a union of three republics...