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...agents, all in their 30s, were taking part in Operation Snowcap, a seven-year-old U.S. effort to dismantle cocaine networks. TIME Washington correspondent Elaine Shannon says the program -- which tries to wipe out air landing strips in the area that produces 60 percent of the world's coca leaves -- is under fire within the agency for showboating and has faced increasing budget cuts under the Clinton Administration: some top D.E.A hands "say a lot of agents have been having a good time playing war. But they think the money ought to be spent closer to home...
Until that point, antibiotics can easily wipe it out. What makes severe, invasive strep A different is that the microbe itself is "ill," infected with a virus. The virus tricks the bacterium into pumping out a highly toxic chemical. Among the possible effects: a catastrophic drop in blood pressure (which contributed to the death of Muppetmeister Jim Henson in 1990); scarlet fever; or, as the recent news reports point out, "necrotizing fasciitis," an illness that can eat away fat and muscle at the astounding rate of up to one inch an hour. If that last process starts, the only treatments...
...trademark sound. Waters, who feels betrayed by his old mates, still holds a grudge. Gilmour is more conciliatory. A sense of wounded wistfulness crops up repeatedly in The Division Bell. "So I open my door to my enemies," Gilmour laments on Lost for Words. "And I ask could we wipe the slate clean/ But they tell me to please go f--- myself/ You know you just...
...from their hiding places and cut down. Last are the babies, who may bear no wounds: they are tossed alive into the water, to drown on their way downstream. The bodies, or pieces of them, glide by for half an hour or so, the time it takes to wipe out a community, carry the victims to the banks and dump them in. Then the water runs clear for awhile, until men and older boys drift into view again, then women, then babies, reuniting in the shallows as the river becomes the grave...
...campus to wipe out. Don't get me wrong, it would be great to have a wrong, it would be great to have a Weld or Matthews at every street corner, but it isn't going to happen...