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...many other cities. The era of the megacity could bring the triumphant return of microbes that have toppled empires throughout history. Says Harvard public-health expert Jonathan Mann: "We only have a truce with infectious disease, and if a city's infrastructure gets overloaded, the balance can tip back to microbes at any time." The cholera epidemic that hit Latin American cities last year, hospitalizing more than 400,000 people and killing at least 4,000 in a few months, shows how quickly a disease can move when it finds a foothold in crowded slums...
...suites in the Hay-Adams hotel. A wounded Marlin Fitzwater pronounced himself offended by the postgame round of one-upmanship. But when it turned out that the cost of extra security for the hotel made the arrangement a financial wash, the old order and the new declared a truce over who was more perk averse. "If they were offended," said Clinton spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers, "we apologize...
...give British Airways crushing new clout in the critical transatlantic market. At the same time, the deal will make USAir a formidable domestic competitor once more. USAir chief executive Seth Schofield conceded, "It's their worst nightmare: competition that they did not expect and do not want. An amicable truce is literally impossible. There is no room for compromise...
...Eastern kingdom. Still struggling to reconcile his animal instincts with his loftier passions, Prince once again bares his tortured muse -- a silver-throated satyr torn between heaven and hell. But this time around, the paradox is addressed with a wry self-awareness that suggests he has struck a productive truce with his old demons. Chaste confections like And God Created Woman, Sweet Baby and Damn U are balanced by the pelvis-pounding grooves of The Max and the jazzy, snazzy Sexy M.F., which will be released in edited and unexpurgated versions...
...would put largely in the hands of the European Community. Some council members grumble that he is arrogant and inattentive and that he too often goes over their heads to directly contact foreign ministers and heads of state, many of whom are old friends. At the moment an uneasy truce prevails, but like cease-fires elsewhere, it may not hold...