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There were other crises. Hesselink had just taken off at sunset from the small airstrip at Nimne, not far from Duar, when he got a radio call from Seaman asking him to return and pick up a woman having complications in childbirth. "I told her it was crazy. It was too late. We would crash," says Hesselink. "She made me do it anyway." After picking up the woman and Seaman in Nimne, Hesselink flew in the dark to Ler, where there was better equipment. As the plane approached the field, the Nuer lit fires along the runway. After being treated...
...Sunrise, sunset: Bill Clinton is in Palo Alto tomorrow to take daughter Chelsea to college. Clinton junior will be whooping it up at Stanford for the next four years...
Local businesses and governments responded quickly. In Orlando, Disney World's Magic Kingdom pulled the drawbridge at least partway up, closing swimming pools and water parks an hour before sunset, when the skeeter dinner bell usually sounds. On Long Island, officials considered similar action, including closing parks until the danger subsides. Though the alert is, so far, more scare than scourge, nobody dismisses it. Says Dr. David Graham, an epidemiologist for New York's Suffolk County: "We want to take precautions...
...depend less on how local governments respond than on the reaction of local citizenry. "The key is to protect yourself," says Tom Skinner of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "That requires wearing long clothing, using insect repellent and staying indoors in the hours right before and after sunset." Avoiding encephalitis-carrying mosquitoes may be no harder than avoiding their benign kin; the stakes, however, are decidedly higher...
...shocked when the estate was handed to me, because there was very little money available. We really didn't have anything," said Priscilla during an interview in her modest office on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where she has run Elvis' estate since 1979, when not making a name for herself as an actress in prime-time soap operas or Naked Gun movies. Then again, perhaps she should not have been so shocked at the estate's relative puniness. "Elvis," she notes with an ex-wife's hard-won lucidity, "did not plan for the future. When he needed money...