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...Waters' case, however, this seemingly random stroke of misfortune soon began to look like a clue to a medical mystery. Shortly after his diagnosis, Waters learned that his former teammate Matt Hazeltine, a linebacker, had also been stricken with ALS. Last December Waters heard of a third ALS casualty from the 1964 squad -- Fullback Gary Lewis. Both Hazeltine and Lewis died earlier this winter. Waters was stunned. Was it mere coincidence? The disease typically strikes 1 in 50,000 Americans a year, yet it hit three teammates on a 55-man squad. Waters' doctor, Stanley Appel, head of neurology...
...prison for 13 years for spreading anti-Soviet propaganda but was freed last week, was somewhat optimistic. "Gorbachev is doing everything he can to activate people," he said, "but he has lots of opposition, both open and secret. His opposition is our problem." Naum Meiman, an activist whose cancer-stricken wife died in Washington last week, just three weeks after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union for treatment in the U.S., described the recent changes as a "more sophisticated way of dealing with dissidents." But in Jerusalem, Natan Sharansky (who changed his name from Anatoli Shcharansky when...
...degrees. At midweek a 5 1/2-inch snowfall turned the French capital into a winter fantasy land where students waged impromptu snowball fights and cross-country skiers trekked across the Champs de Mars near the Eiffel Tower. Following the lead of President Francois Mitterrand, who deployed army troops to stricken areas across the country, French Premier Jacques Chirac mobilized some 1,800 soldiers to help remove the snow from Paris streets. The government ordered two Paris Metro stations to stay open all night to help shelter an estimated 15,000 homeless men and women. The weather was even more severe...
...work," says Assistant Labor Secretary Roger Semerad. "Everything in the future is going to be much more technologically oriented, and a much higher level of literacy is going to be required." The proposal applies not just to workers made jobless by foreign competition but to everyone stricken by long-term change...
...battle in the sky. It was unbelievable." So said Jordanian Businessman Salim Dado after surviving a terrifying ordeal aboard an Iraqi jetliner on Christmas Day. According to officials in Saudi Arabia, where the plane subsequently crashed, 62 of the 107 passengers and crew members on the stricken craft were not so lucky: they died in the crash, and about 20 others were injured, in one of the worst hijacking disasters on record...