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West Germany. The country's reputation as Europe's economic powerhouse has taken a beating as oil-price increases brought economic growth to a halt. From 736,800 (3.2%) only two years ago, the jobless rate has swollen to 1.4 million, or 5.8%. Josef Stingl, president of the Federal Institute of Labor, warned last week that the number would probably rise further. One consolation: there is no evidence that the jobless have joined the middle-class youths who have rampaged through West Berlin and other cities to protest the lack of adequate housing. In the industrial Ruhr Valley...
Leonard's left eye had become a serious problem for him by the start of the eleventh round. It was swollen almost shut, virtually blinding him on the side where Hearns' right hand waited. Hearns tattooed the eye, trying to close it completely in hopes of setting Leonard up. Sugar Ray, with his head cocked oddly to the side to improve his vision, was steadily losing points-and the time in which to redeem them-as his injury worsened...
...fled the city, carrying the disease with them. Tiny and remote, Eyam seemed safe. But that September a village tailor received an infested bolt of cloth from London. Within a few days the tailor died. Soon dozens of others were seized by raging fever, vomiting, giddiness and excruciating buboes (swollen glands). But by the end of May the pestilence seemed to have run its course, with only 77 dead...
...first encounters with that grisly ailment of the atomic age, so puzzling to its initial victims, known as radiation sickness. Among the early signs: nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite, thirst, fever and diarrhea. By the second week, hair began to fall out, the gums became painfully swollen, the white-blood-cell count fell sharply. Severe exposure usually meant death. Lethal rays did not always come directly from the blasts. The explosions produced some 200 different isotopes, most of them radioactive, with varying half-lives. Days after the bombs fell, survivors were exposed to this "hot" debris as they sifted...
...Mateo, Calif., was sent by her obstetrician to the prenatal diagnosis clinic of the University of California-San Francisco. Ultrasound scans showed that she was bearing twins, a boy and a girl. At 28 weeks the female fetus seemed normal, but the male's kidneys and bladder were swollen with fluid backed up in the urinary tract...