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...next morning was lethargic and complaining that his neck hurt. Jeffrey seemed to be coming down with a sore throat, but soon his temperature reached 106° F (41° C). A lymph gland in his neck swelled to golf-ball size, his lips and tongue turned strawberry, and scarlet blotches appeared on his chest and back. Jeffrey's illness: a perplexing and long unrecognized childhood malady called Kawasaki disease...
...Tokyo pediatrician named Tomisaku Kawasaki, now 55, was struck by something unusual. Several of his patients at the Japan Red Cross medical center had the symptoms of scarlet fever, yet did not respond to penicillin. In the next years Kawasaki spotted similar cases. By 1967 he was convinced that he was seeing a new illness, one that mostly struck children under five, and could only be diagnosed by a combination of distinct symptoms. Among them: high fever persisting for five or more days, congested blood vessels in the eye, skin rashes, enlarged lymph nodes in the neck, peeling...
...Martinique the author has an audience with one of the island's aging aristocrats, an enchantress whose piano playing attracts an exotic group of listeners: green, scarlet and lavender chameleons. Abandoned on a Connecticut country road, Capote meets a widow who shelters him in her cottage and shows him a freezer full of dead cats, old pets she could not bear to part with. Two policemen wait at a Los Angeles airport boarding gate to arrest Capote for ignoring a subpoena to testify in a murder case he had researched. The situation looks hopeless until he runs into Pearl...
...Rome, 500 North American Indians last week knelt and prayed during a pontifical Mass, along with 25,000 worshipers from around the world. The men's fan-shaped, feathered headdresses and bright sashes, the women's sequined gowns and colored headbands mingled with the scarlet robes of cardinals and the purple of bishops under the dome of the basilica. The Indians, representing 35 tribes from ten states and Canada, came bearing gifts for Pope John Paul II, including a peace pipe and beaded leather moccasins. But the purpose of their visit to Rome was to celebrate the beatification...
Against one corner a makeshift medical unit was set up, staffed by nearly 100 doctors, podiatrists, nurses and muscle therapists. "We see about 20 per cent of the people who run," Dr. Jonathan J. Scarlet, a podiatry coordinator for the marathon, said yesterday. He added, "The number goes up as the temperature rises. We bring podiatry students along to keep a census, but they get so busy fetching water that nobody can keep count...