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...continuing to spread to the far reaches of the subcontinent, with new cases reported in the huge metropolises of New Delhi and Calcutta -- both hundreds of miles away from where the diseases started. The official tally of deaths is 54, but unofficial -- and probably more accurate -- figures set the toll at about 300. India hasn't seen such a scourge since the 1950s, a major problem in fighting the disaster. Explains TIME associate editor Christine Gorman, who covers science: "One of the things that could work against them is the inexperience of the doctors...
Still, the pace of a multi-billion dollar capital campaign may be taking its toll on Rudenstine, Asked about the campaign in a press conference last week, the president's expression grew stern and the customary liveliness disappeared from his voice...
When so much of the day's job involves exposure to the darkest corners of human nature, cynicism and denial serve as a handy emotional vaccine. But that coldness can take a personal toll; and at worst, the day's violence bleeds into the home. In a study by Arizona State University sociologist Leanor Boulin-Johnson of 728 officers in two East Coast departments, some 40% responded that "they had gotten out of control and behaved violently against their spouse and children." Last week in Alexandria, Louisiana, deputy sheriff Paul Broussard shot his estranged wife Andrea five times because...
...course took its toll on the Crimson when junior Brian Walsh was forced to pull out of the race due to a turned ankle...
...than died on those two nuclear mornings. The scales of death were pretty heavy, well before the Bomb. Four months earlier, Americans suffered 48,000 casualties taking Okinawa. And in March 1945, the incendiary- bomb raids had burned down much of Tokyo and killed at least 100,000, a toll approaching the combined carnage at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. To have possessed a weapon that would end such a war almost instantly and not to have used it would have been inexplicable and, to those who would have died in the longer war, inexcusable...