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...Ayub's winter-bound capital of Rawalpindi, war fever still runs high. Sandbags are piled around government buildings, air-raid trenches kept clear and ready. In the brunt of the summer's fighting, war readiness has become a way of life. In Lahore, scene of much of last summer's fighting, hardy Pakistanis last week nibbled sweets and kept their horse-driven tongas ready to carry rice and curry to frontline soldiers. "Sons of Islam are meant to fight," said one, "not to allow their guns to rust...
...squishy little parasites are less than an inch long, but they cause a globe-girdling disease variously known as schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, or simply snail fever. The more man does to increase his food supply, the more he nurtures the parasites and spreads the disease. Only a few years ago, the world had an estimated 100 to 200 million schistosomiasis victims spread across much of Asia, Africa and Latin America; now the estimate is 50% higher, largely because new irrigation canals and other waterworks have enlarged the parasites' habitat...
...then have a complex life cycle: they enter the body of a snail, progress to a second larval form, then emerge and enter the human body either by mouth or through the skin. In man they cause a lifelong debilitating disease marked by coughs, rashes, blood in the urine, fever and nausea; eventually they attack the liver, lungs, spleen and brain...
Malaria has been sharply curbed by improved drugs and anti-mosquito spraying. Now that schistosomiasis itself can be cured, the next step is to clean up water supplies. Combined cure and prevention might then halt the relentless spread of the fever, which is now close to surpassing malaria as a destroyer of human health in the tropics...
...search for skilled workers is reaching fever level as the U.S. manpower pool is drained at an accelerating rate by the nation's 58-month economic advance. Last week the Labor Department reported that nonfarm payrolls covered a record 61.8 million workers in November, a 4.4% gain from a year ago-the largest in 14 years. While overall unemployment fell to an eight-year low of 4.2% in November, the jobless rate among skilled craftsmen has slumped...