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...Mississippi and Louisiana. This year the action has shifted to Colorado, which had only 14 cases and no deaths in all of 2002 but already has nearly 250 cases and six deaths so far this year. Part of that shift is due to the nature of mosquito populations, which tend to go through boom-and-bust cycles. Colorado's happens to be booming this summer...
...also reflects the fact that West Nile has been moving inexorably westward since it arrived in the Northeast in 1999. Diseases tend to expand their range until something stops them, and because this one is transmitted mostly by mosquitoes, which live in every state, there's not much stopping it. (It can also be transmitted by blood transfusion, but on July 1, the Food and Drug Administration authorized two experimental tests now being used on the nation's blood supply...
...liberals 24/7, or from Ann Coulter, who is selling the old Stalinist line that dissent equals disloyalty. Or from the aging adolescents at Fox News, who enjoy peeing in the political swimming pool. But when you get among the real people who are actually engaged in public life, they tend to be well-mannered and respectful of the process and the humanity of those who take part. That's the difference between entertainment and politics. Of course, the Terminator could choose to go this route, and if he did, he could be a good Governor and make...
...made the difference, she says. It was also simple human intervention: De Noinville was not left alone. "We in this home are just lucky we had excellent people caring for us," she says. Thirty doctors, nurses and aides at Sainte-Agnès public retirement home in suburban Paris tended to the 80 residents with ice packs, wet towels and fluids to help them survive the suffocating heat in the home, which, like most French retirement homes, is not air-conditioned. Three residents died during the heat wave - deaths sped by high temperatures, not staff negligence. "They knew exactly what...
...those who are fit, climbing often becomes more an addiction than a hobby. Suzanne Rowen, 50, for one, dropped out of her high-powered Wall Street job and moved west to immerse herself in the sport. Yosemite climbing pioneer Royal Robbins, 68, offers an explanation: "Climbing does tend to call for the best that's in us," he says. "There's something about climbing that really forces people to come to grips with their weaknesses and their true being...