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...those Haitian pigs have virtually disappeared, and with them may go the peasant's way of life. Three years ago, when African swine fever broke out among local hogs, the Haitian government, with U.S. assistance, undertook a $22 million one-year campaign that eradicated the country's surviving population of 400,000 black swine. Reason: U.S. agricultural experts feared that the disease would spread and wreck the $10 billion U.S. pig business. Death squads wiped out the pigs of 800,000 Haitian families, paying $30 to $40 compensation for each animal killed. Wildlife biologists are now tracking down...
Until quite recently, researchers had felt no particular urgency for immunization. The disease had long been regarded as a benign malady, and although it tends to hit adults more severely than children, most people seemed to suffer through the rash, high fever, sore throat and painful joints without ill effect. But increasingly, doctors have realized that varicella contains a variety of hidden threats. Among them: bacterial infections of the skin, pneumonia, encephalitis and the severe brain disorder known as Reye's syndrome. It can also be life-threatening to children taking immune-suppressing anticancer drugs. According to Government estimates...
...takeover fever that has infected American business continued to burn unabated last week. Beatrice Foods, which owns such brands as Tropicana orange juice, La Choy Oriental food and Swiss Miss chocolate mix, offered $2.8 billion for Esmark, which owns Playtex, Max Factor and Avis. The bid, which Esmark approved, topped by $400 million the offer made only three weeks earlier by the New York investment banking firm of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, and was $300 million more than Beatrice's earlier...
Every year Americans from gardeners to hikers groan and curse at the effects of poison ivy. As much as 25% of the population is so sensitive to the weed that contact can result in high fever and oozing blisters. Lotions are generally ineffective, and steroids, prescribed for the most severe cases, can produce a serious drug reaction. But help is at hand. A flurry of scientific advances promises to take the sting out of one of North America's most irritating environmental hazards...
Romance lives for Inez in the person of Jack Lovett, a CIA freelance with unspecified trading interests in the Far East. They had a brief affair when she was 17, a "crazy little girl with island fever" who wore gardenias in her hair. For the next 20 years they met mostly in international airports, and the mutual obsession flourished. She scanned the departure lounges on her endless political trips and was sometimes rewarded. For her lover, an actual sighting was not necessary: "She had always been there in his peripheral vision, a fitful shadow, the image that came forward when...