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...Since water can also carry the bacteria with alarming ease, Walkerton?s disastrous encounter with the illness serves as a terrifying nudge into a state of vigilance. In the case of water-borne outbreaks, people become infected after coming into contact with swimming or drinking water that?s been contaminated with sewage and/or human or animal fecal matter. With that delightful image in mind, doctors recommend taking the following precautions around water: Avoid swallowing lake or pool water when swimming; do everyone a favor and don?t swim when you are having gastrointestinal issues; keep children who wear diapers...
...programs include a swim program for children with asthma, fitness and nutrition programs, a family help desk and an adolescent resource center among its 14 programs...
Easter Sunday was just another day in paradise for James and Mary Murphy of Rochester, N.Y. They had come to the $250-a-night resort of Sipadan Island, off the east coast of Malaysia, to swim among the coral, turtles and parrot fish. But that evening, as they dined with the other tourists, six armed assailants turned up. Shouting "Move it, goddam, move it!" the intruders ordered everyone to swim to boats waiting offshore...
...Murphys were lucky. James Murphy noted that the men did not seem to behave like the pirates who roamed the South China Sea; they showed little interest in the tourists' valuables as they cut the phone lines. Thinking quickly, he told them his wife could not swim and was unable to make it to the boats. Nonplussed, the invaders turned away long enough for the Murphys to hide in the undergrowth. Last week, at a hotel in Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur, James said, "If they would have taken us, we'd have been the only American hostages." That would...
...about me," she writes. "He listened to my feelings... And he always supported me with encouragement and advice." In contrast, "home was a place where I always felt alone." Alienated from her workaholic mother, she had only one other friend and hated her grueling workouts on a nationally ranked swim team. She obsessed over fashion magazines and couldn't figure out why her life in affluent New Canaan was nothing like that of the beautiful rich kids on Beverly Hills...