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...Here Comes Summer" [July 4] -excellent! Finally an interesting, in-depth article that does not discover a new American problem, ailment or cause to preach on. Nor does it present a view of America in trite, sugar-coated homilies-just reality, professionally spiced with some enjoyable, entertaining and individual perceptions...
...sweetheart, Joan, 23, received shocking news. Her Wasserman test had turned out positive, indicating that she might have syphilis. Refusing to believe those results, she promptly demanded and got another examination-which confirmed that she did not have syphilis. The "false positive" had been caused by a more serious ailment: the baffling-and as yet incurable-disease of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), which afflicts perhaps half a million people...
...other hand, police speculate that because Zeccardi's family received demands for payment of $200,000-never made-he was kidnaped by non-Mafia freelancers, and may have died of a heart attack; he suffered from a heart ailment. Whatever the case, the violence has stirred anxieties in Mafia breasts that even Sinatra's mellowest tones could hardly soothe...
...decades doctors have been battling the parasitic disease with the few available drugs, usually arsenic compounds. At the same time, local and international agencies have waged campaigns to eradicate tsetse flies, the bloodsucking insects that transmit the ailment to domestic cattle and man. Neither approach has been particularly successful. Trypanosomiasis still casts its shadow over 35 million people who live in the heart of tropical Africa, the tsetse fly's breeding ground, making huge areas all but uninhabitable...
Most seriously affected are partly disabled people who collect pension payments from a former employer while holding down a part-time or less demanding job. A typical example is a policeman with a heart ailment who leaves the force and takes on lighter duties as a department store guard. Last year he could deduct $5,200 of his police pension income. This year he cannot deduct any of it, since he is not totally disabled, and he now owes a big tax bill. One Colorado couple's tax liability jumped from...