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...parts of the Northeast and Midwest, are easily cured by taking an antibiotic like doxycycline for a couple of weeks. But for years a debate has raged over what to do about patients whose symptoms (fatigue, mental confusion, joint pain) never seem to clear up. One small but vocal group of doctors and patient advocates believes that Lyme's corkscrew-shaped spirochetes have burrowed deep into their victims' bodies and can be eradicated only with intensive antibiotic treatment over many months. Another group believes, just as adamantly, that the bacteria are long gone, making further treatment with powerful antibiotics--which...
...remainder of the century. Hooker, like Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Elmore James, took the Mississippi Delta blues and shocked it into modernity, revitalizing the still-youthful music with electric guitars. Hooker's songs were desperate and desolate but enlivened with boogie-woogie energy. His instrumental skills matched his vocal prowess; his guitar playing was spare, sharp and menacing, like a broken beer bottle brandished in a bar fight...
...Detroit, the last of three consecutive sold- out performances in the area, the pleasure the crowd took at the two local kids' success was palpable. The bartenders showed up clad in the band's signature red and white, and Jack was able to let the audience take over vocal duties on a few memorable lines. For that matter, it was hard not to be moved by a video tape an elementary school teacher from nearby Kalamazoo sent Jack of her class belting out "Apple Blossom," a song from De Stijl. "I cried the first time I saw this," Jack mutters...
...Hollywood, in the New York media world and especially in Washington, where a years-long battle royal rages on over a once uncontroversial memorial honoring the so-called Greatest Generation. Last month, the House of Representatives granted final approval to the memorial project, despite vocal and emotional opposition from some veteran groups and a handful of legislators. And Thursday, a federal judge dealt what appears to be a decisive blow to that opposition, denying a request to temporarily halt construction...
...those opponents not adequately intimidated by that show of political clout, and the federal court's latest ruling, there is yet another, even more awesome adversary: America?s current top celluloid war hero. Tom Hanks is one of the memorial?s earliest and most vocal backers...