Word: fevered
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...want to be a Jerusalem cop? As if the tinderbox of Jews and Palestinians living cheek-by-jowl in a city sacred to both isn't volatile enough, Millennial fever is bringing to town all manner of Christian fundamentalist whackos in search of apocalypse. "The major concern of the police is that some of these groups believe they need to create Armageddon in order to bring back Christ," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "They plan to do that by destroying Muslim holy sites in order to provoke...
...South Carolina Republican Party with the specific instruction that none of it go toward the attorney general's re-election, which was enough to raise doubts about his motivation. Moreover, South Carolina had not pulled enough weight in the case for its withdrawal to ignite secessionist fever. "I wouldn't have been able to identify them as one of the states involved," says Boies...
...million project, like the Suez Canal that preceded it, was an epic assault on nature that employed as many as 43,400 workers at a time--many of whom succumbed to yellow fever while clearing the mosquito-infested swamps. More than 211 million cu. yds. of earth and rock were moved to unite the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. The canal cut the voyage from New York to California by 7,800 miles. Leased by the U.S., it returns to Panamanian sovereignty...
Michael Lewis is the author of Liar's Poker and Trail Fever...
TYLENOL Brand name for acetaminophen, available in 1960. Like aspirin it reduces pain and fever. Unlike aspirin it will not irritate the gastric system...