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...this catchiness and accessibility that scare away many purists, or perhaps cause them embarrassment when their secret enjoyment is discovered. However, there is a depth to the Dave Matthews Band that sets them apart, as was evident at the electrifying Orpheum show...
Harvard survived a scare later in the period as Antos had a point-blank opportunity denied by Villiotte. The Crimson regained its composure, though, and was able to hold off the Eagles for the remainder of the game...
...problem making for jumpy nerves was evident: Mexico, and the hurdles the Clinton Administration was facing in trying to pull together a $40 billion loan-guarantee package for the battered neighbor. The scare that had afflicted financial markets in the wake of Mexico's debilitating Dec. 20 devaluation of the peso was developing into something more serious: a general skittishness about markets in countries embracing tariff cutting, deregulation and the sale of state-owned assets on the road to modernization. The new, skeptical mood was in fact spreading beyond the Third World to affect countries like Spain, Italy and Sweden...
...samples from the Silva Reservoir show high concentrations of the pesticide endosulfan, though local farmers and tanneries in the area deny using the chemical. As officials search for clues, the National Water Commission patrols the reservoir in a boat equipped with a siren, and volunteers set off fireworks to scare waterfowl away. Though the water has been declared dangerous for use in homes and in some kinds of agriculture, farmers continue to irrigate their fields with it. ``We've warned them, but they say they will be dying of starvation while we continue to worry about the ducks,'' says Roberto...
With attacks on clinics and doctors, the anti-choice movement is trying to scare medical students from a career in women's health. A 14-page "Joke Book" was recently distributed to 33,000 medical students. The jokes recommended that physicians who perform abortions should be shot, attacked by dogs and buried in concrete. Some joke...