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...debate gets downright vicious when the subject turns to "chronic Lyme disease," a catch-all term that means different things to different people. Some patient advocates and their medical allies believe the Lyme spirochete tends to persist in the body even after standard antibiotic treatment. This camp generally favors intravenous antibiotic therapy to treat chronic Lyme. On the other hand, some academic researchers and their allies argue that people with chronic Lyme fall into one of two categories: they either have hypersensitive immune systems that have overreacted to an earlier, no longer viable, Lyme infection--in which case antibiotics...
...computers of the Youth Violence Task Force, an elite 65-person unit that tracks and targets gang activity. "We made threats directly to gang members and then delivered on it," says Police Commissioner Paul Evans. A case in point is the Intervale Posse, for years one of the most vicious gangs in the city. Despite repeated warnings from state and federal authorities, Intervale continued to terrorize its Dorchester neighborhood. Cease-Fire struck at dawn last August, arresting 24 gang members; 15 were brought down with federal warrants. "They are the teeth of the whole thing," notes David Singletary, an officer...
DIED. MATE BOBAN, 57, chauvinistic Bosnian Croat leader who spearheaded the creation of the short-lived Croatian statelet of Herzeg-Bosna; of a stroke; in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 1993 Boban waged a vicious campaign against Muslims in his drive for an ethnically pure Croatian republic...
...affirmative-action opponent Ward Connerly [NATION, June 23] the Martin Luther King Jr. of our time? King fought against entrenched racism, sought equal rights for all Americans and met vicious opposition. Connerly is fighting an entrenched reverse racism in the name of the same cause and meets vicious opposition as well. But as we stand with Connerly, we shall overcome. THOMAS A. HEPPENHEIMER Fountain Valley, Calif...
...press conference was not even the worst. Jones later appeared in a vicious video called The Clinton Chronicles, put together by Clinton haters to accuse the President of all manner of implausible crimes. She was dressed in a sort of Little Bo Peep outfit, presumably meant to suggest virginal innocence. Penthouse by then had published nearly nude pictures of Jones in suggestive poses, taken years earlier by a former boyfriend and sold to the magazine without her knowledge; in fact, Jones tried to get an injunction to stop their publication. Even so, the ludicrous contrast between her appearance in Penthouse...