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...lose elasticity and sag. Loss of fat around the eyes gives them a sunken look, and the face starts to wrinkle in what starvation experts call the old-man syndrome. The other principal form of starvation, kwashiorkor, is largely a protein-vitamin-mineral deficiency. Its most common symptom: swollen legs and ankles, caused by fluid leaking from blood vessels into the body...
extending far out into a swollen river...
...Ford and Chrysler were reporting 20% gains in car sales, GM products slipped 3.7%. This created the potential for a fourth-quarter loss of $1 billion, to finish off a record third year in the red. Because of declines in its investment portfolio, GM's unfunded pension liability has swollen from $8.6 billion to $11.4 billion. GM is preparing to freeze salaried wages and again suspend executive bonuses, selling off money-losing operations like National Car Rental and stopping production of its slow-selling Cadillac Allante ($61,675) sport coupe. Not even the Allante's powerful '93 Northstar engine seems...
...marketeer, and is relieved of his duties when he gets too close to the truth. He blackmails his boss for an air ticket and follows the trail to Munich. The corruption here is prosperity gone to fat. Needing to create a diversion in a parking garage, Arkady jostles a swollen, glistening car. Its alarm screams. Another jostled car and another; the German miracle bawls its rage. On to post-Wall Berlin, awash in refugees and resentments, smelling of money, poverty and developers' schemes. Arkady has found his old love Irina, the Siberian beauty lost in the West since Gorky Park...
Knighton drew a .22-cal. revolver out of his belt, jabbed it into her swollen belly and pulled the trigger. The bullet ripped through her unborn baby's head. Schanell managed to stagger to the room she shared with her mother and four siblings in a boardinghouse in one of the oldest, most dangerous neighborhoods of Deerfield Beach. As she collapsed on a bed, Knighton took a nickel from her room, strolled back to the store and calmly bought two Kools...