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...described in Europe a century ago, but it was not until 1975 that Rheumatologist Allen Steere, then at Yale, made sense of the malady. Steere investigated a group of children, in and around Lyme, Conn., who were suffering from a mysterious form of arthritis. He traced the outbreak to speck-size ticks of the genus Ixodes, carried mainly by mice and deer. In 1982 federal researchers isolated the culprit from the tick: a corkscrew-shaped bacterium, or spirochete, similar to the one that causes syphilis...
California's Silicon Valley, home of many of the nation's newest high-tech companies, boasts a far cleaner image, but its workers face perils as well. In semiconductor plants, where a single speck of dust can destroy a computer chip, employees must don gloves, caps, gowns and shoe covers. But these chipmaking facilities, known as "clean labs," seem misnamed when workers relate the litany of health problems they encounter by being exposed to the acids, gases and solvents used in chip manufacture. California's division of labor statistics and research has found a high incidence of disabling illnesses among...
...openly defended lying to Congress to conceal his illegal acts. He committed his crimes in support of a bad lot of men who engage in widespread rape, murder, and torture. What other "real Americans" may we look forward to viewing in the Harvard Coop windows? Charles Whitman? Richard Speck? Ed Gein? Perhaps Charles Manson...
Gazing out of her window as she rode a jumbo jet from London to Newark last * Wednesday, Passenger Candi Meacham was enjoying the clear blue Atlantic vista when her reverie was rudely shattered. Suddenly what had at first seemed to be just a speck in the sky became another airliner that was streaking right toward her Continental Airlines 747. "I knew it was going to hit us," the Jacksonville homemaker recalled with a shudder...
...least been able to point with pride to their jet builders. Boeing and McDonnell Douglas won more than 65% of world orders for commercial passenger planes last year. But that dominant position grows more precarious by the day. Europe's Airbus Industrie, which once seemed like a tiny speck on the horizon, is closing fast with hot new planes and cut-rate prices. Subsidized by European governments and charged by its rivals with making underhanded deals to win sales, Airbus has brought fiercer competition to an industry that has never been tranquil. It has also sparked a serious trade dispute...