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Life's a bitch, and then your Volvo dies. As millennium fever reaches hysterical new heights in the final months of 1999, it seems that everything and everyone in America has something to be worried about: computers, Bill Gates, non-Christians, even yuppies. That's right: if movies are any indicator of the American psyche, even the high priests of American consumer culture have been bit by the Y2K bug. There's a new genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means...
Life's a bitch, and then your Volvo dies. As millennium fever reaches hysterical new heights in the final months of 1999, it seems that everything and everyone in America has something to be worried about: computers, Bill Gates, non-Christians, even yuppies. That's right: if movies are any indicator of the American psyche, even the high priests of American consumer culture have been bit by the Y2K bug. There's a new genre in Hollywood that is threatening to flood out the competition from the tide of teen comedies: yuppie angst. Friday night at your local theater means...
...turning up by the dozens at New York City's Bronx Zoo. By August, McNamara, the zoo's staff pathologist, had collected carcasses of 40 birds. Meanwhile Dr. Deborah Asnis, an infectious-disease specialist at Flushing Hospital in Queens, reported the admission of two elderly patients with muscle weakness, fever and confusion...
...there Lieserl's life was poignantly short. According to Zackheim, the little girl died at 21 months after a bout of scarlet fever. Zackheim even gives the date of her death--Sept. 15, 1903, when Vojvodina was darkened by a solar eclipse, the sort of celestial ballet between sun and moon that would later provide the world with the first proof of the correctness of Einstein's radical new ideas about time and space...
...possible Lieserls, including a melodramatic Berlin actress who claimed in the 1930s to be Einstein's daughter. Zackheim's final conclusions, however--based on little more than inferences from a cryptic 1903 letter from Einstein to Mileva ("I am very sorry about what has happened to Lieserl. Scarlet fever often leaves some lasting trace behind") and vague comments about idiocy in the family by an elderly Maric descendant in the Serbian town of Kac--remain conjectural at best...