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...Andy's smooth shuffle with Ravenal's hesitant walk), and his handling of crowd scenes is impeccable: a nod here, a gesture there, and a chorus is transformed from a mob into a collection of individuals. There are no haughty white folks and nobly suffering darkies aboard Prince's vessel -- just real people who know that sometimes it's not only make-believe. The beauty of this Show Boat is that it makes believers...
Nautical engineers never say a ship is unsinkable -- not since the Titanic hit an iceberg and went down in 1912. But the disaster of the passenger-and- car ferry Estonia last week was surely one that should never have happened. The 14-year-old German-built vessel was well designed, carefully maintained and as safe as modern technology could make it. It carried the required number of lifeboats and life jackets. Its engines and equipment were deemed in order: it had been thoroughly inspected Sept. 9 and again last Tuesday...
...started making phone calls. To whom? To an unlikely trio indeed: former President Jimmy Carter, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell, and Senate Armed Services chairman Sam Nunn. The urgent conversations went on until Friday afternoon. By then the last U.S. warships in a 23-vessel armada were nearing their battle stations off Haiti, and Pentagon briefers were telling reporters that American forces would be ready to begin the invasion anytime after dark Sunday...
...Defense Department scrambled all week to position the military for action. In Puerto Rico, troops began warm-up maneuvers. Deputy Defense Secretary John Deutch ordered seven huge cargo ships out of mothballs; a day later, he activated five more supply vessels. They are expected to set sail this week to transport weapons and materiel for the Army's 10th Mountain Division, which will play a key part in the postinvasion peacekeeping force. On Friday, Pentagon officials said that the aircraft carrier Dwight D. Eisenhower will pull into its berth in Norfolk, Virginia, this week and begin replacing its planes with...
...illness like tuberculosis, the immune system kills the body's own cells in the localized areas where TB germs have taken hold, including the lungs or the bones. With staph or strep, the sheer volume of disease-fighting immune cells can overload blood vessels, ripping tiny tears in the vessel linings; toxins can also damage the vessels directly. Plasma begins to leak out of the bloodstream; blood pressure drops, organs fail, and the body falls into a state of shock. In cholera, bacterial toxins attack intestinal cells, triggering diarrhea, catastrophic dehydration and death...