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...terrors of the filovirus, a family of threadlike viruses found in the rain-forest regions of Central Africa. He describes a 1976 outbreak that spread through villages near the Ebola River in Zaire, killing as many as 90% of those infected. This so-called Ebola Zaire virus is the deadliest of the filoviruses, but its Ebola Sudan and Marburg kin, while not as deadly, cause equally horrible symptoms...
...trial depends on Clark's getting past the determined lawyering of defense attorney Robert Shapiro. With one challenge in particular -- the admissibility of bloody evidence gathered at O.J.'s home by police before they obtained a warrant -- Shapiro could deprive the prosecution of some of its deadliest persuaders. As the face-off continues this week between a confident prosecution and a relentlessly counterpunching defense, much of the struggle will center on these issues...
...past 24 hours have included some of the deadliest natural disasters in the nation's recent history. In Glenwood Springs, Colorado, wind whipped up one of dozens of forest fires now ravaging Western states, trapping 52 fire fighters and killing 13. One fire fighter was still missing this afternoon. At least 17 people have been killed by floods that continued to swamp towns in the Southeast. Rising waters in Georgia claimed all the known fatalities; divers were still searching for five people this evening. Damages there already amount to more than $60 million, and watersare expected to crest Saturday...
...version of the crash, this much is clear: 75 more people are now dead in a country where air crashes last year killed nearly five times as many people as in 1987. This year the numbers are even worse: already, 195 people have died in what is becoming the deadliest season in the history of Russian civil aviation. Indeed, so dangerous have the post-Soviet skies become that this week the International Airline Passengers' Association will begin advising its members "not to fly to, in or over Russia. It's simply too dangerous...
...young daughter have died in a car crash from which Julie barely escaped. So she hides away from her friends and herself. "I don't want any love, memories, belongings," she says. "Those are traps." It takes her the length of the film to realize that isolation is the deadliest snare, that the only release is art and passion. But the true drama can be found in Kieslowski's meticulous images. Cool and seductive, they are the perfect frame for Binoche's harried glamour...