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Less controversial details are fuzzed as well. The film opens with a World Health Organization team investigating the Ebola fever outbreak in Zaire in 1976. "It was not AIDS," says the text on the screen, "but it was a warning of things to come." How? One has to go back to the book to learn that the Ebola fever virus is unrelated to AIDS; it was simply an epidemic that, unlike AIDS, was contained...
...relations with Leonard for 15 years. Herbert made frequent use of his toughness in the 1980s, when he and Robert mounted campaigns to take over such retailing giants as Dayton Hudson and Safeway Foods. While the Hafts never purchased those behemoths, they walked off with fat profits after takeover fever jacked up the price of the target companies' shares...
Gary Gordon, president of B.G. Mudd, a trading company in Gallup, New Mexico, thinks the key to Indian fever is neither politicized rockers nor savvy savers. "People drifted West, all the way to Los Angeles, but they found it was too kooky," he says. "What we have now is the backlash, people who want stability." After stability, he adds wryly, comes Ralph Lauren. "Now it's a look. The Southwest is here to stay...
...lawyers convene this week in New York City for the A.B.A.'s annual meeting. And they're not being oversensitive, either. A poll published by the National Law Journal last week concluded that "resentment of lawyers -- ranging from lawyer-bashing jokes to outright vilification -- is running at a fever pitch." Seventy-three percent of the 815 Americans polled believe that there are too many lawyers. Only 5% said they would recommend law as a profession to their children. Concedes incoming A.B.A. president R. William Ide III: "We're sort of getting kicked in the shins...
...months Gina Cruz, a Manila grandmother, played Pepsi-Cola's Numbers Fever promotion lottery, buying several bottles a day and saving the caps, in the hope that one of the numbers printed inside would win her a 1 million peso ($40,000) prize. When the magic number, 349, was announced in May 1992, Cruz was overjoyed to find she had not one but two caps bearing the winning digits. She promptly fainted...