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This is where the hantavirus was identified, where Ebola and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and South American Junin virus are all studied for clues to how to stop them. And it is here at the CDC that a new, deadly flu virus would be sent so scientists could race against time to develop a vaccine...
...most enjoyable, when you approach them with a sense of adventure.... Dinner table statements like, 'Christ, I think it's going to be a long one,' or 'I've got a 30-page paper due tomorrow!' will serve the triplicate function of attracting sympathy, justifying your having fifths on congo bars, and giving you delusions of safaridom...
Paramount executives maintain that the studio actually exceeded its financial targets in 1995, thanks to successes like Congo and Clueless. Indeed, top Paramount executives Jonathan Dolgen and Sherry Lansing were just given new contracts, and Redstone seems eager to work with them--closely. "Sherry said to me, 'I promise you I won't make a picture unless I'm in love with the script,'" Redstone relates. "That was the problem with Jade. I liked the picture, but I didn't know who was killing whom...
...believer in the institution--as a promise for sorting out truly worldwide issues, at least. In this view, the U.N. as policeman is suited for the job of global traffic cop, not crimebuster. Even though it acted with resolve 35 years ago in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), and though its authority lent crucial coloration to the American-led defense of South Korea in the 1950s and the ejection of Iraqi invaders from Kuwait as this decade opened, the list of disputes negotiated with only a walk-on part, if any, for the supposed supercop is impressive...
...everyday writer, and I never have been. I have continued a pattern of intermittent, very intense effort, and that's the way I still do it." Routine is key. He eats the same lunch every day: while writing Rising Sun, it was buckwheat noodles; during Congo, mashed potatoes, gravy and an open-face turkey sandwich; for The Great Train Robbery, heavily peppered tuna sandwiches...