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...week's end at least 2,000 people were believed to have died, more than 5,000 were injured, and thousands were missing. As rescue workers, all too often digging into the rubble with hand tools, responded to faint cries for help and unearthed ever more bodies, the death toll rose hourly. U.S. Ambassador John Gavin, who flew over the devastation in a helicopter, predicted that some 10,000, perhaps even double that number, would eventually be found dead or trapped in the ruins. Said he: "It looked as if a giant foot had stepped on the buildings...
...miles southwest of Mexico City. Fortunately, the affected states are sparsely populated, and their rocky underpinnings provided some resistance to the tremors. Still, at least 150 people were reported killed in Jalisco and 30 in Michoacan, where two hotels were leveled at the resort of Playa Azul. The toll along the coast, too, seemed certain to rise...
...cancer diagnosed annually in the U.S., as many as 90,000 occur in women who are postmenopausal or over 50. In roughly half of these older women, the malignant cells have spread to nearby lymph nodes; some 30% die of recurring cancer within five years after surgery. That grim toll may soon be reduced. A National Institutes of Health advisory panel last week recommended the postsurgery use of a drug called tamoxifen in most of these cases, saying that it could cut the death rate...
...time and the blistering heat took their toll on the Lions, who wilted in the last 25 minutes...
...SUMMER'S DEVELOPMENTS in South Africa should radically change the debate here over Harvard's $400 million in South Africa-related investments. As the violence becomes more widespread, the body toll mounts, and the South African economy implodes, U.S. foreign policy towards the country is becoming increasingly irrelevant there. U.S. government sanctions against South Africa and corporate disinvestment from the country are concepts once abstracted from brutal reality. If that is the case, then Harvard's policy of "intensive dialogue" with portfolio companies operating in South Africa is twice abstracted from reality, now so irrelevant to South African conditions...