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...Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta. In a matter of days, highly trained specialists--essentially a public-health swat team from the premier U.S. government lab's Epidemic Intelligence Service--were on the scene. Within two weeks, their meticulous detective work had identified the deadly microbe: a lethal variant of a germ known as hantavirus, carried by rodents but never known to be deadly in humans. Armed with that knowledge, health officials launched a multistate public-awareness campaign, and before long the number of deaths plummeted--from 20 in the first few months to just 23 since...
...imagines, for very long. Much as we all enjoy a sloppy wallow in cheap sentiment, it is hard to imagine anyone wanting to watch Robin Williams further degrade in Jack what was one of the movies' most valuable gifts. The film is a Big variant--a kid inhabiting a grownup's body and getting into all sorts of trouble as a result. But we're not talking about an ill-considered wish going merrily awry here. We're talking about a tragic illness. For Jack doesn't just get older and hairier, he keeps aging at four times the normal...
...subsidized Cuba with discount petroleum and petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. So scientists at CIGB concentrated on improving the food supply. Among other things, they equipped sugarcane and potatoes with bacterial genes that confer pest resistance and added an extra growth-hormone gene to tilapia, creating a faster-growing variant of that tasty freshwater fish...
What could lead a parent to such shocking behavior? Authorities believe Kathleen Bush suffers from a variant of Munchausen syndrome, a mental disorder that impels people to feign or induce illness in a twisted bid for attention. In Munchausen by proxy, parents may injure their children--smothering them with pillows, injecting them with poisons, mixing blood in their urine--in order to draw praise for their dedicated nursing of their offspring...
Besides knocking each other around, Martin and Gogarty punched the lights out of several presumptions. First to fall was the notion that women can't box and that if they tried, it would be some variant of boxercise or, worse yet, hot-oil wrestling. Well, as Tom Humphries wrote in the Irish Times, "it took five, maybe 10 seconds for the beery, testosterone charged crowd in the MGM [Grand] Garden to realize they weren't watching a novelty act...The mixture of ferocity and serious boxing skills left the most chauvinistic ticket holders gape-mouthed." Equally awed were the millions...