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...delighted that such a splendid sum has been raised for the FAS," Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles said in a written statement yesterday. "The number exceeds--already--the total for the campaign of the late '70s and early '80s...
...deer tick in Northern states, while monocytic Ehrlichiosis is a mostly Southern syndrome that travels in the Lone Star tick. The disease is found in 30 states, including Texas and Oklahoma. More than 400 cases of monocytic Ehrlichiosis, nine of them fatal, have been documented since the mid-'80s. Unfortunately the two species of Ehrlichia are sufficiently distinct from each other so that the existing test for the monocytic disease will not always betray the presence of the granulocytic...
...that, the key player on the Balkan scene -- has determined that his interest now lies in distancing himself from the Bosnian Serbs and in the process apparently trying to put the genie of Serb nationalism back into the bottle from which he coaxed it in the '80s. If the sanctions are lifted, Milosevic says, he will personally lead a campaign to deliver the Bosnian Serbs to the peace table-and will bring off a comprehensive regional peace "within six months." What is also clear is that to lift from Serbia (or from Milosevic, or both) the burden of being...
...picking up echoes of Vietnam ... I remember thinking that perhaps Iran-contra was at least in part the bill for Vietnam finally coming due." Timberg had been told that the nightingale cannot perform unless it first hears a few notes from another nightingale. His conceit is that in the '80s, Ronald Reagan sang the nightingale's song of patriotism and military pride and honor and sacrifice, a traditional American hymn of duty and manhood that Vietnam had silenced, or turned obscene. Timberg thinks three of the five men--North, Poindexter and McFarlane--got tangled up in the Rube Goldberg contraption...
AREN'T WE REALLY TALKING ABOUT QUALITY of life vs. quantity of life? My aunt is in her 80s, I am in my 50s. She dances; I run--on estrogen. JILL SWEITZER Orinda, California...