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...developing nations. But the disease has remained endemic in India, which still accounts for most of the world's remaining reported cases. The country is likely to retain this dubious distinction for a while. Indian authorities report that the current epidemic, which began last January, has so far stricken more than 100,000 and claimed 16,000 lives. The World Health Organization, which figures that as many as one out of every five afflicted by the disease will die, estimates the toll at more than...
...radiate down into his left arm; his heart may begin to beat irregularly. Most people know that these are some of the classic symptoms of a heart attack. But many of them do not know that there is only one proper course of action if they are suddenly stricken with these symptoms: call the doctor...
...Viet Nam film clips: street fighting in Danang perhaps, the helicopters wheeling overhead, the hissing tear-gas canisters, finally the flames of the enemy's hideout leaping into the suddenly hushed twilight. But the reality was that Patty Hearst might well be in the flames, and the most stricken of all the electronic witnesses was the Hearst family, watching 350 miles away in a suburb of San Francisco...
...back to back massacres were dreadful enough in themselves: the world was stunned by photographs of lifeless children, bloody victims, agony-stricken mourners. Beyond that, the two days of insensible terror threatened to accomplish what fanatics on either side hoped they would: break up the disengagement talks that U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has been conducting between Jerusalem and Damascus. Actually, the terrorism appeared to have had an opposite effect. The horror of what had happened and what else might occur emphasized the necessity for peace. At week's end, after his fourth shuttle round trip of the week...
...their own comeback after losing the first set, and their 6-7, 6-3, 6-4, victory provided Princeton with the winning margin. Harvard finished the year fourth in EITA standings with a 6-3 record, having suffered crucial losses to Columbia and Penn when the squad was flu-stricken...