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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...CROWN THOUGHT she was doing the right thing last year when she moved to a dryer climate in Bakersfield, California, after being plagued by asthma attacks during her six years in Hawaii. A few months later, Crown, 35, was suffering from severe headaches, a prolonged fever of 102 degreesF, swollen feet and painful bumps on her hands and legs. The diagnosis: "valley fever," or coccidioidomycosis, a dust-borne disease caused by the microscopic spores of a fungus, Coccidioides immitis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Valley Fever | 2/1/1993 | See Source »

...boyfriend James Fairley two years ago in Bradenton, Florida. She was three months pregnant at the time. A week after she delivered their first baby, James raped her and ripped her stitches. Several times she tried to leave or get help. "I would have a bloody mouth and a swollen face. All the police would do is give me a card with a deputy's name on it and tell me it was a 'lovers' quarrel.' The battered women's shelter was full. All they could offer was a counselor on the phone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 'til Death Do Us Part | 1/18/1993 | See Source »

Giants begin to falter when their managers, swollen with arrogance and complacency, allow themselves to lose touch with their customers. This happens most often at firms that maintain a rigid, top-down management style. "Big companies find that the challenges of keeping up with what's going on in the marketplace become infinitely greater as the companies get larger," says Walter Scott, a professor at Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management. "The layers of management and perks isolate executives too much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are America's Corporate Giants a Dying Breed? | 12/28/1992 | See Source »

...lose elasticity and sag. Loss of fat around the eyes gives them a sunken look, and the face starts to wrinkle in what starvation experts call the old-man syndrome. The other principal form of starvation, kwashiorkor, is largely a protein-vitamin-mineral deficiency. Its most common symptom: swollen legs and ankles, caused by fluid leaking from blood vessels into the body...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It Takes More Than Food to Cure Starvation | 12/21/1992 | See Source »

extending far out into a swollen river...

Author: By Steve L. Burt, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Lyrical Moment | 12/17/1992 | See Source »

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