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PLAGUE. In 1994 a long monsoon in northern India followed by 90 consecutive days of 100[degrees]F heat drove rats into the cities. In Surat, they caused an outbreak of pneumonic plague. The ensuing panic killed 63 people and ultimately cost India $2 billion...
...same synergies that empower microbes also weaken our defenses against them. Heat, increased ultraviolet radiation resulting from ozone depletion, and pollutants like chlorinated hydrocarbons all suppress the disease-battling immune systems--both for humans and for other animals. Epstein, who is one of the principal authors of the upcoming WHO study, notes that in recent years variants of the class of viruses that includes measles have killed seals in the North Sea, lions in the Serengeti and horses in Australia--three very different animals widely scattered around the globe...
...managed to uncover a number of key sites, including the monument-strewn ruins of Teopantecuanitlan in the Mexican state of Guerrero, and the sacred shrine at El Manati, whose murky springs yielded the first examples of wooden Olmec statuary and the earliest known evidence of child sacrifice in Mesoamerica. Heat and hardship notwithstanding, the prospect of understanding the still shrouded origins of Mesoamerican civilization--and the haunting beauty of the items on display at the National Gallery--makes it all seem worthwhile...
...area facility to use a computer, the duplicitous father figure who must be killed) but with more brio. It also boasts some of the genre's standard idiocies. The script, by Tony Puryear, Walon Green and Michael S. Chernuchin, dreams up a new era of hand-held weaponry: a heat-seeking assault rifle. But the bad guys can't shoot straight enough with these can't-miss guns to hit either star. When they are on target, they often kill one another...
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Whitewater, Travelgate and Filegate heat up; maybe she should focus on foreign policy...