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Already 165,000 have developed the affliction, and more than 1,200 have died. By one estimate, as many as 6 million people may fall ill over the next three years, with the death toll reaching 40,000. Two weeks ago, Brazil reported its first cases, in the Amazonian jungle on the border with Peru. In the U.S., health officials revealed last week that four people in the New York ( City area became ill after eating improperly cooked crabmeat that had been illegally brought into the country from Ecuador. (Excellent public sanitation should, however, prevent a U.S. outbreak.) "We just...
...contend that the activist strategy can spark enormous anxiety in children and their parents. One boy was so depressed at his high cholesterol reading that he refused to join friends at picnics and beach parties. Says Dr. Abraham Bergman of the University of Washington, who has studied the psychological toll on youngsters of benign heart murmurs and sickle-cell trait: "Children pay a price for being labeled." There is concern too that overzealous parents will put their offspring on overly stringent diets that can deprive them of essential calories and nutrients and stunt their growth...
...answer to the above "problem" is the familiar line that "guns don't kill people--people kill people." Yeah, right. The inescapable reality of violent incidents is that, with every increase in the ferocity of the assailant's weapon, from knife to revolver to semiautomatic weapon, the death toll rises exponentially...
...charges against the 20 defendants included murder, attempted murder and undermining Egypt's relations with the U.S. and Israel. The crime: a series of bloody attacks against American and Israeli diplomats between 1984 and 1987. The toll: two Israelis dead, six Israelis and two Americans injured. But the case against the terrorist group known as Egypt's Revolution was exceptional for yet another reason: among the 11 defendants facing the death penalty was Khaled Abdel Nasser, 41, eldest son of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser. Khaled, an engineer, was accused of financing the group and supplying it with weapons...
Desirable new subdivisions are beginning to inspire occasional bidding frenzies. Would-be buyers during the past several weeks have taken to camping out in front of homes to ensure themselves a chance to bid. The Toll Bros. development company held a grand opening the first weekend in February for a new housing project southwest of Philadelphia -- not that there was much to open. Only a single roof had been raised. Yet 400 people showed up the first day, and the initial 32 homes planned sold out within four days. When the company held an opening for a project near Washington...