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...Gabon. The villagers of Mayibout caught the deadly disease after eating meat from a dead chimpanzee found in the jungle. The World Health Organization has a team investigating the area, and the Gabonian goverment is trying to educate the population about the disease. Their efforts may be in vain, however. The Ebola virus has no cure, and painfully kills 80 to 90 percent of its victims, causing massive bleeding, liquifying their internal tissues. Ebola is only spread by transfer of blood and bodily fluids, which works in tandem with the virus' exceptionally high fatality rate to keep the disease from...
...agreement. "For Dayton to be termed a success, rather than a high-water mark of good intentions, the civilian implementation must succeed." Without that, U.S. soldiers--the one who died last week, and those who may die in the weeks to come--will have given their lives in vain...
...against drug dealing. For most of the past 10 years, he has been serving the Colombian cartels by smuggling their cocaine from Mexico into the U.S., distributing drugs in half a dozen American cities and earning as much as $2 billion a year in the process. Ruthless, violent and vain (last year he underwent an operation to trim back his bulbous nose), he spent millions each month bribing a network of corrupt officials in the government. Those payments made him untouchable during the administration of former President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. Now, however, they make him dangerous: the list...
...SUCK-UP HERE: First-term House Republican Linda Smith bucked her leaders by pushing in vain for radical campaign-finance reform that would have banned pac money and out-of-state contributions. As she said, "You can't perform surgery in a dirty operating room and with a team that hasn't scrubbed." LOW POINTS THE SUCKER AWARD: Republican presidential hopefuls rushed to genuflect at the Dallas conclave summoned by Ross Perot. Six weeks later, Perot announced the formation of an independent party...
...point gagged on camera. Cooper was also in Haiti in the days before the downfall of the Cedras regime. His reports had an appealing casualness and intimacy: "I was just listening to some Bob Marley. I was listening to the line, 'I don't want to wait in vain for your love,' and shots went...