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...world--and the airline industry--didn't have enough to worry about, health officials on three continents last week were warning travelers to beware of a deadly, highly contagious form of pneumonia being rapidly carried around the world by passengers on jet planes. By Saturday night, at least nine people had died, one of them an American businessman traveling in Asia. The World Health Organization issued a rare emergency travel advisory after receiving reports of at least 150 cases. Meanwhile, researchers at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta were scrambling to identify the bug before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Next? Killer Pneumonia | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

...Movies: Jet Li's Cradle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On the Trail of an Asian Contagion | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...million at the North American box office, and its 2001 sequel did even better: $226 million. Hollywood needed no further goading. It paired Jackie's pal Sammo Hung with Arsenio Hall for the TV drama Martial Law, which had a healthy two-year run. And it has put Jet Li, the little dynamo from Beijing, in the company of rappers: Aaliyah in the 2000 hit Romeo Must Die and now DMX in Cradle 2 the Grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tone Is Jet Black | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...Movies: Jet Li's Cradle

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tone Is Jet Black | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

...other words, Hollywood thinks Jet Li is the new Bruce Lee. In the Jetster's major-studio debut, Lethal Weapon 4, Mel Gibson glanced at Li's designer tunic and cracked, "Nice pajamas, Bruce." In Cradle, Li still has to fend off references to Hong Kong's seminal martial artist, who died 30 years ago. An angry dwarf threatens to have his henchmen "kick your ass, Bruce." Li's response may be directed as much to his bosses as to the dwarf: "I'm not Bruce," he says wearily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Tone Is Jet Black | 3/23/2003 | See Source »

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