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...vice-presidential post in Orlando next week. "We have boxes full of heartbreaking stories. We have grown men coming in here and bursting into tears over how they've been cheated. It's an awful thing to see, a working man striving to support his family having to resort to tears...
...syphilis, though now it is thought that the malaria provokes a powerful response by the immune system. Heimlich does not apply malaria therapy, which is not approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Nonetheless, he insists that the treatment, available in Mexico and Panama, is a legitimate last resort for late-stage Lyme sufferers who are "paralyzed, bedridden in a fetal position" or perhaps going blind. Results vary, and what is achieved by weeks of full-blown malaria seems at best to be a remission...
...less chance of false alarms. In 1976, 72,000 residents of the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe were forced to leave their homes because a nearby volcano seemed about to blow. Several months later, after no eruption occurred, the considerably discomfited evacuees returned home. And ever since 1980, the California resort area of Mammoth Lakes has fretted over recurrent clusters of small earthquakes. The resort abuts a huge depression caused hundreds of thousands of years ago by an exploding volcano. "What the earthquakes mean is that the volcanic system is still alive and dynamic," notes Robert Tilling of the U.S. Geological...
...worlds of high risk and heavy metal are coming together. Peter Morton, trend-sensitive co-founder of the Hard Rock Cafe chain, plans to open a Hard Rock hotel-casino in Las Vegas by late 1992. The 326-room property would be the resort's first casino to target patrons more versed in Ben E. King than Benny Goodman. Morton's chain of 11 Hard Rock restaurants, which serve down- home food and vintage rock, has grown to annual revenues of nearly $100 million. Morton's latest smash hit: a Hard Rock restaurant in Las Vegas, an instant landmark thanks...
...economic embargo of Iraq a chance to cripple Saddam's war machine. We agreed that the worldwide coalition could not tolerate the ruthless dictator's occupation of Kuwait indefinitely, but we believed (and still do believe) that military force should be used only as a last resort...