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...movie's frequently plausible situations make the viewer uncomfortable. Motaba, the incurable, fatal African disease brought over by a monkey, can't be laughed off. Nor can scenes of the town's isolation under martial law. The formerly bucolic Cedar Creek is surrounded with barbed wire. Heavily guarded "camps" are constructed in which people march in, and emerge as corpses. The final solution for dealing with the infected, and thus incurable, is also disturbing--bomb them and destroy the virus...
...perception of the role that the president plays in our government. Finally, Clinton must be cautious of those who advise him to move to the right (or further to the right), as a means to appease Conservatives. Such a move by a centrist Democrat is sure to prove politically fatal...
...official holdings of Nikkei 225s in Osaka and SIMEX."I won't tell you how good," says a Barings employee, "but it was a good business." Little did Barings know that it was responsible for error account No. 88888, which was unhedged and would turn out to be fatal to the company...
VINDICATED. LIEUT. KARA HULTGREEN, deceased, one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots; by a report concluding that last October's fatal crash at sea of her F-14A was the result of engine failure. The investigation flatly contradicted an anonymous campaign conducted on talk radio and the Internet that belittled her skills...
Murder meets both conditions; it is condemned by virtually every known system of morality, and civilized life would be impossible in a community that allowed citizens to kill one another with impunity. Prohibition might perhaps be justified on public safety grounds, given the fights, violence and fatal accidents resulting largely from alcohol abuse. But it fails decisively on the first ground: too many citizens refuse to regard the drinking of alcohol as immoral to make its prohibition justifiable-or enforceable. Abortion fails on both grounds: public opinion about its morality is not just divided but fragmented into a thousand splinters...