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...sanitation often provides new pathways for infectious agents. In Mexico cysticercosis, caused by a tapeworm that invades the human brain, used to be transmitted primarily by improperly cooked pork. Now people are getting the disease from vegetables grown in fields irrigated by water containing effluent that flows into the Tula River from Mexico City. Brinkmann estimates that more than half of the 300 million urban poor in the developing world are in a permanently weakened condition because they carry one or more parasites...
...sewn into the Communist Party patronage quilt. "The party should work outside the workplace, that's plain," Yeltsin told 4,000 workers at a jet-engine factory in Perm as local big shots listened glumly. "I am for the departification of the army, the KGB and the factory." In Tula this message was so badly received that officials cut off power to Yeltsin's microphones for an outdoor speech, then smirked as the candidate struggled with a bullhorn. In Chelyabinsk last week, security agents were so irritated by the ecstatic welcome offered by a crowd gathered outside the opera theater...
Harvard had a balanced scoring attack, with five players in double figures. Central Connecticut's Tula Kofitsas was the game's leading scorer with 20 points, but it was "garbage time" by the five-minute mark...
CENTRAL CONNECTICUT (60): Charlene Shepard 3-8 4-4 12; Christina Grubb 2-9 1-4 5; Ruthie Smith 3-6 4-6 10; Angie Suffridge 1-6 0-0 2; Andrea Hartman 2-6 1-1 5; Melissa Prindiville 3-11 0-1 6; Tula Kofitsas 9-17 2-3 20; Margaret Van Cott...
There was, in the Tula line, both good news and bad news for the West. A recognition of the need for nuclear sufficiency rather than superiority was welcome, especially if it meant that the Soviet Union might be coaxed into retiring some of its most threatening weapons. The bad news was that Moscow still seemed bent on increasing its influence in Europe -- and on using its huge conventional military strength...