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It lasted until 1848, and it is estimated that more than one million people died and as many emigrated to escape the ravages of the catastrophe.
It "might have been more honestly called Hilly Buttocks I Have Known ," says James Wolcott in the Wall Street Journal . Those who don't dismiss it as salacious gossip laud its revelations about gay New York writers, especially the poet James Merrill, and its depiction of the ravages of AIDS.
As for "health care," the occasion of much bipartisan huffing and puffing about the need to save citizens from the ravages of HMOs, it commanded the top interest of a mere 7 percent of voters.
France, they say, is the victim of currency speculators, whose ravages President Chirac once likened to those of AIDS.
In modern times the Sinai had become a backwater protected from the ravages of the modern world, and perhaps it would have remained one of the world’s undiscovered spots if it hadn’t been for one invention: Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus (SCUBA).