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Everybody seemed to be catching Olympic fever last week, participants and spectators alike. Veteran journalists, including TIME'S expanded team of 38 correspondents, writers and photographers in Los Angeles, were no exception...
...reach the top slots simultaneously on the pop, black and dance charts. Purple Rain had already sold nearly 2.5 million copies before the movie was released last Friday. This is serious business. So is the movie, a short-circuited psychodrama that grafts snazzy performance footage onto the fictive fever chart of an angst-ridden musician called The Kid and played by Prince himself. The movie has been pulling down real tub-thumper reviews, the sort of hot-seat hype that gives some indication of the way Prince can generate fever and keep the temperature high...
...week of sunny days, spectacle and drama. Teams from all over the world converged on Cambridge to play out their preliminary matches in an atmosphere curiously different from the "Olympic fever" that has struck Los Angeles...
Last year 2,000 sentinel pigs were sent from the U.S. and Canada to 505 locations in Haiti to test for the presence of any remaining African swine fever. Less than 1% of them have died...
...essential as the pigs were to the peasant economy, their fate was sealed once the African swine fever was discovered. An acute, febrile, highly contagious viral disease with a 99% mortality rate, it was initially recognized in Kenya in 1909. In 1971 it appeared for the first time in the Western Hemisphere, in Cuba, where 460,000 swine were killed to eliminate the disease. In 1978 it turned up in the Dominican Republic after a local pig supposedly ate contaminated ham from Spain. The vi rus quickly jumped the 200-mile common border into Haiti. Haitians recall seeing pigs fall...