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First, a sprained ankle. Then chicken pox. Both just as Fraiberg began his first year...

Author: By Ishani Maitra, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Fairy-Tale Ending | 6/4/1992 | See Source »

...Phoenix, whose population soared from 1.5 million to 2.1 million during the past 10 years, Los Angeles is regularly held up as a disfiguring pox to be avoided at all costs. Two fatal shootings on local freeways last month were quickly characterized by commuters as "L.A.-style freeway killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Urban Crisis: Everybody's Fall Guy | 6/10/1991 | See Source »

...contribution to the team. During her sophomore year, she began feeling sick as the Ivy League Tournament at Princeton drew near. She was determined to attend the tournament, but when she showed up at the van to leave, her teammates noticed that she had come down with the chicken pox...

Author: By Jason Gross, | Title: "She's Very Close to Being the Complete Player." | 10/17/1990 | See Source »

Blasphemer. Sinner. A pox on thee and on thy children's children. May you choke on a wishbone. Thou shalt be cast unto the deepest pit of the abyss. And there shall rise a foul beast, a beast of the sorrowful appellation, "Benno." And in the seventh fire of the seventh hell shalt thou be tormented by the unrepentant spirit of Brian Dowling. And your skin shall be as pigskin, and your heart pierced by the spikes of vengeful Harvard guard Doug Rosenberry...

Author: By Stephen J. Newman, | Title: There's No Excuse to Stay in Cambridge | 11/18/1989 | See Source »

...have been haunting the harbors of the Middle East for two months. Originally sent from Perth to Saudi Arabia, which buys 3 1/2 million Australian sheep a year, this flock was turned away after the Saudi Ministry of Agriculture and Water asserted that the bleaters were afflicted with sheep pox and bluetongue. Australian officials say those diseases do not exist in their country and that the Saudis were pressured by their own sheep producers to cut imports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMERCE Sheep at Any Price | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

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