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...Southwestern states. The dark brown insect, featuring a protruding proboscis and a splash of orange at the edge of its wings, strikes at night, quietly feasting on the blood of the slumbering victim. Most involuntary donors awaken the next morning itching from what seems to be a mosquito bite. But some immediately develop alarming and occasionally fatal allergic symptoms. Dr. Jacob Pinnas of the University of Arizona suggests that kissing- bug deaths may be underestimated. Some people who die in their sleep and have their death attributed to other causes, he says, may be victims of the not-so-amorous...
...Gaidar's team drafted a memorandum for the International Monetary Fund, initial doubts gave way to strong support for the Yeltsin government's tough fiscal policies. The latest compromise raises questions, once again, about what the West can do to bail out Russia. But it is Russians, feeling the bite of the reforms, who fail to understand that, as Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Makharadze points out, "if this government is toppled, there will be no reforms...
Many critics, however, complain that the SEC's regulatory bark is worse than its bite. They point to a case, decided last month, involving Neil Rogen, founder and former chairman of Memory Metals, who without admitting or denying guilt agreed to a court order to settle insider-trading charges with forfeited profits and fines totaling $6 million. The SEC, though, waived the fines when Rogen said he didn't have the money to pay them...
...year of vicious ethnic bloodletting has ensued. Now most of the world has decided that the prime cause of the fighting is the nationalist fervor of Serbia. Yes, the war is a more complicated eruption of ancient religious, ethnic and territorial hatreds, but it is Serbia's determination to bite off parts of the other republics peopled by Serbs that keeps the war going. And the U.S., the 12-nation European Community, the 52-nation Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (C.S.C.E.) and the United Nations have let it roll on unchecked while dithering helplessly about what, if anything...
...hokum and hoopla of professional politics. Not bad for a reluctant dragon whose supporters had just filed petitions containing more than 200,000 signatures -- about four times what he needs to get on the ballot in Texas. The speech, delivered in his trademark East Texas twang, was more sound bite than substance: "If I could wish for one thing for my children, it's to leave the American Dream intact, so they can dream great dreams and have those dreams come true." But the message was unmistakable: look out Washington -- look out George Bush and Bill Clinton -- here comes...