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...deadly is SARS? Not as bad as you might fear. As of last week, 84 people had died of SARS, none of them in Europe. Health officials put the mortality rate from SARS at 3.4%. By comparison, the West Nile virus killed 277 people last year in the U.S. alone (a 6.7% death rate), and in an average year in Europe, the flu kills...
...film of its ostensible weight, The Hours certainly takes easy shots at its lead trio—three colossally boring straw women who rediscover their lost vitality in drearily obvious ways as the picture progresses. Perhaps The Hours’ greatest value rests in its side-by-side comparison of Moore, the greatest actress of her generation, and Streep, the most acclaimed actress of hers; when judged head-to-head, Moore ends up easily topping Streep, if for no other reason than that Streep persists in being an actress onscreen while Moore is content to be a person. Winner...
...spite of this, the music never sounds like trendy world music; the instruments themselves are so raw and poorly incorporated that the end result is a welcome departure from blandness. In comparison, Yorkston’s lyrics are unmemorable. Though hokey lines like “I’m sure we’ve got Sweet Jesus on our side” are regrettable, they’re so slurred that they’re easily ignored...
...stock market while still maintaining control. Of the 250 largest firms whose shares trade on the Paris stock exchange, 57% were family controlled in 1998 (the latest year for which figures are available), up from 48% five years earlier, according to a study by the Insead business school. By comparison, about 40% of the firms in the S&P 500 index in the U.S. are family controlled...
...were only a few sentences written on each piece of paper, and he turned through them quickly. He read his statement in his familiar throaty monotone, occasionally raising his voice but otherwise showing little overt emotion including anger. He looked much more composed, exhibiting his customary defiant confidence in comparison to the shaken figure seen in the broadcast last Thursday...