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...finally discovered, a new form of highly contagious and often unexpungeable affliction will excite the public’s fear: the download. Symptoms: icon blemishes, commonly found in the bottom right corner of the screen; a geologically protracted start-up delay; and the PC deathknell, “Fatal error has occurred. You will lose any unsaved information because you just had to download that pirated Backgammon software. Nice going, chump...
...recovery is by no means assured. Tourists have not returned, which has left long-running hits like The Phantom of the Opera and Les Miserables in danger of closing. Advance ticket sales are way off; people are going to the theater, but they are not planning ahead--a potentially fatal blow to shows that depend on hefty spring sales to get through the slow winter months. And the outlook for future productions is dicey. "What investors are asking themselves," says Jed Bernstein, president of the League of American Theatres and Producers, "is, If Broadway is already at the high-risk...
George Monroe (Kevin Kline) is an architect's assistant. He lives in a shack overlooking the ocean. He also has one of those fatal movie diseases that doesn't restrict strenuous physical activity or general good cheer. He decides to renovate his house and his disaffected son (Hayden Christensen) by employing him on the job. Will they reconcile? Will the house get finished before George croaks? Will the movie end in an orgy of sentiment? Why do we bother...
...YEARS AGO IN TIME A rare, fatal case of ANTHRAX on the home front sends a wave of fear through an American public already wary of biological and chemical attacks. Just over a decade ago, with the Gulf War looming, TIME looked at the invisible threat soldiers could face on the frontlines...
...share at least some of Washington's concerns. Many in his Labor Party fear that Sharon is responding to pressure from within his own Likud Party to destroy the Palestinian Authority and drive Arafat back into exile. Peres's primary concern, however, is that Sharon may be making a fatal mistake by seeking to delegitimize Arafat, because despite Israel's frustrations with him, the Palestinian leader remains a moderate on the Palestinian political spectrum. And if Arafat is removed, warns Peres, Israel will find itself facing an even more radical leadership in the Palestinian territories...