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QUICK READS Nothing is more 21st century than being in a hurry. For the health-conscious reader in a rush, the prestigious American College of Physicians has put out a series of 14 Home Medical Guides (DK Publishing), handsome paperback books covering a number of medical topics, including diabetes, Parkinson's disease, coronary-artery disease and migraines. The books, each fewer than 100 pages, have the twin virtues of being short and crisply written. Their empowering tone will be comforting to the reader. The guides cut right to the chase, giving you just the information you need. Illustrated with colorful...
This anger against the growing flood of 1 million illegal immigrants a year is rising fast among independent-spirited, gun-toting residents in the borderlands of Arizona, Texas and New Mexico. Over the past three years, the number of illegals streaming across the border has remained constant. They come from Mexico, where a third of the people live on $2 a day or less, and from other countries where poverty, national disasters and political upheaval unleash an exodus of refugees. Since the early 1990s, the border patrol has partly sealed the California frontier with its operations "Hold the Line...
...cheap hotels, cantinas and shops specializing in plastic water jugs and can openers for the illegals' desert odyssey, Barnett is considered bad for business. More than 1.2 million illegals--Mexicans, Central Americans, Chinese and a smattering of Europeans--poured through here last year. Yet during May and June, the number of aliens wanting to cross has fallen considerably, and some coyotes think this may be Barnett's fault; his notoriety has spread throughout Mexico. As a result, many illegals are heading west, to Nogales, Ariz. In the Azueta plaza where the coyotes meet their pollos (chickens), the smugglers...
Manojlovic has been taking extreme risks. She is one of a growing number of young Serbs--30,000 by the latest estimates--who have joined the movement known as Otpor, Serbian for resistance. Virtually unknown until a few months ago, the group is generating as much anti-Milosevic heat as anything since the end of the NATO campaign a year ago. Otpor has few leaders, relying instead on an informal web of student connections. And unlike the country's traditional opposition groups, which spend more time jockeying for power than pushing for change, Otpor has no political ambitions, according...
...losing only four in 1999, then performing postseason heroics against Cleveland and New York, Martinez has won nine games this year and lost two--with an average of 12 strikeouts for every nine innings he pitches. What's most impressive about Martinez is his earned-run average: the number of runs that opposing teams score against him, without help from errors, for every nine innings that he pitches. In this ERA of a lively baseball, when an era of 4 a game is considered good, Pedro's ERA is an astonishing 0.99. The modern-day full-season record...