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With a few simple measures, families can minimize the risks. First, they should get pets inoculated, particularly those that might encounter other animals. Last year health officials destroyed 290 rabid cats and 182 infected dogs. In rural and suburban areas, people should keep pets behind fences so they will have little contact with wild animals; garbage and pet food should be kept indoors to discourage furry intruders from entering backyards...
...next five years. While some details remained to be worked out Monday, the big breakthrough came Thursday night when Moynihan and House Ways and Means Committee chairman Dan Rostenkowski agreed to accept the Senate proposal for a 4.3 cents-per-gal. hike in the cost of gasoline. Senators from rural states, led by Montana's Max Baucus, had declared the 4.3 cents hike a ceiling and refused to support anything higher. Though Moynihan floated 6.5 cents and 6 cents alternatives, both failed. White House aides were disappointed, but recognized that the smaller tax would help keep Baucus and Connecticut...
...scientists continue to investigate the mysterious eclipse of the classic Maya empire, the Maya themselves are all around them. An estimated 1.2 million Maya still live in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, and nearly 5 million more are spread throughout the Yucatan Peninsula and the cities and rural farm communities of Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. Ethnically, they are derived from the same people who created the most exalted culture in Mesoamerica. Yet the thousands of visitors who come each year to admire the imposing temples of Palenque might be shocked to know the ignominious fate...
...Federal Emergency Management Agency, long derided as a dumping ground for political hacks and feckless bureaucrats. Most recently, FEMA was blamed for mishandling relief efforts after Hurricane Andrew. Witt has brought to the agency the frontline verve he had shown in official posts in Arkansas where, when snowstorms closed rural roads, he could be found standing on the tailgate of a pickup truck, spreading salt to clear the way for motorists. In times of flood, Witt stacked sandbags and drove a bulldozer...
...start, a radical primitivism, tend to find a level where -- surprise! -- their ancestors emerge from the closet. So it is with Dubuffet, who never ceased to insist that he was kicking free from the conventions of Western culture, starting with the idea of beauty itself. Yet his attachment to rural images from earlier French art, particularly the earthy fields of Millet, is pervasive and obvious; some of his "Texturologies" might as well be exaggeratedly close-up paintings of the life of the soil done by a microbiologist under the spell of the Barbizon school...