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...also reported spectacular rises in the disease. Central America has been extremely hard hit; in Honduras, for example, malaria cases rose from 7,503 in 1974 to 30,289 in 1975 and 48,804 in 1976. El Salvador, poorest and most densely populated of the Central American republics, was stricken with a rise from 66,691 cases in 1974 to 83,290 in 1976. Nicaragua and Guatemala have also reported significant numbers of new cases...
...strange events sent a chill through the sprawling Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich. Within a six-week period in the summer of 1975, 27 patients, many of them in the intensive-care unit, suffered mysterious breathing failures. Several were stricken more than once, and eleven of the patients died (TIME, March 22, 1976). After an investigation by the FBI. two young Filipino nurses who worked in that section of the hospital were arrested. They were charged with dosing some of the stricken patients with the muscle relaxant Pavulon, which is a synthetic version of curare, the lethal plant...
Even if Smith used Spalding's manuscript, why would Smith have been so foolish as to retain pages of a known manuscript within a work he said was inspired by God? Davis & Co. answer -somewhat lamely-that Smith was so poverty-stricken that he and his aides might have stuck sections of Spalding's manuscript between pages of their own in order to save paper, which was scarce and expensive in those days...
...past few years, usually in summer or fall, dozens of people in eastern Connecticut-both children and adults-have been stricken with these painful and puzzling symptoms, which often come in repeated episodes that last for weeks and even months at a stretch. At first, doctors suspected rheumatoid arthritis, a serious disease of still unknown origin that can permanently cripple the joints. Then, learning that almost all the victims lived in three adjoining towns along the Connecticut River-Lyme, Old Lyme and East Haddam (total population 12,000)-medical investigators from the Yale University School of Medicine came...
...Cruelty to Animals, there has been a marked increase in "demands for ransom to return animals." The ransom bite usually ranges between $150 and $200. Sometimes those seeking ransom do not even have the animal; they pose as dog finders when they see the phone number of a grief-stricken owner in "Dog Lost" advertisements...