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Rampaging floodwaters continued to wash catastrophe across the Southwest last week, the Trinity River wreaking havoc from Dallas southward while the swollen Arkansas and Red rivers pitched into homes and fields in Arkansas, where Governor Bill Clinton declared 29 counties disaster areas. At the Texas- Oklahoma border, waters rushing out of overfilled Lake Texoma ravaged a popular summer restaurant-disco-and-marina complex. By the weekend the unruly Trinity was menacing East Texas with still larger troubles. "The river's going crazy," said National Weather Service hydrologist Ernest Cathey in Fort Worth. As it inundated immense swaths of ranchland, stranding...
...illness is hard to diagnose, but fevers, swollen lymph nodes, muscle weakness, headaches and bouts of fatigue that last for six months or more can all be signs of CFS. Many patients are unable to work and even become bedridden. Alan Tolkoff, a Los Angeles management consultant who has recovered from CFS, got so weak that his wife had to spoon-feed him. With no specific tests to pinpoint the syndrome, patients having milder symptoms can go through several physicians before finding one who believes something is seriously wrong. However, more and more doctors are listening to the complaints...
True to its theme of emotional cannibalism in a dead-end society, The Cook has plenty of eating and excreting. Its characters, sad creatures swathed in Jean-Paul Gaultier couture, gorge on their own swollen hunger for sex, control, revenge. Similarly, Greenaway -- inspired by Jacobean revenge plays and Dutch masters' paintings -- stuffs the viewer with ripe images and raw language. He tests your appetite for intelligent sensation. For many it may be a daunting test, but it is worth taking. Elegant and rancid, this movie rates an X as in excellent...
Appraising the swollen cattle as they weighed in, Henry Astor allowed as how he had bought "a fine herd." The next morning he looked out over a group of scrawny, dehydrated creatures. "I have been sold watered stock!" he bellowed, and Wall Street gained a new term for swindle...
...make matters worse, Popiel banged his knee while checking a Northeastern forward during Monday night's second period. Team doctors examined the senior's knee during intermission and allowed him to play in the game's final period, but Popiel said the knee was slightly swollen and very stiff when he woke up yesterday morning...