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...there other viruses as dangerous as HIV-or even more dangerous-lurking on the edge of civilization? That's the question that haunts public-health officials. Dr. Karl Johnson, formerly a virologist with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, wonders: "Suppose we get a virus that is both deadly to man and transmitted in the air?" It needn't even be a new organism, since viruses undergo mutations every so often. Sometimes they change into a more harmless form--but sometimesthey get more virulent. Which means that the next time Ebola virus emerges from the jungle, it might...
...Seattle Supersonics wasted a stunningly successful season by collapsing in the first round of the N.B.A. play-offs. "It's time to face our embarrassment, be humbled, feel the humility of the sport and go and try to figure out some things," said a subdued coach George Karl after the team's final 114-110 loss to the Los Angeles Lakers...
...wrong. I know that honest work is honest work. My father is a farmworker and my mother a housewife and seamstress, and so I have had the experience of being a member of the Lumpenproletariat (which somehow seemed appropriate, since Karl Marx's birthday always falls on Cinco de Mayo). However, Harvard is supposed to be a pass to bigger and better things, and I hadn't expected to end up shoveling popcorn into Value Size cardboard containers. Soon enough that enterprising Harvard spirit set in: I set my sights on being employee of the month. I was sure that...
...Karl Dykhuis scored the winning goal for Philadelphia with a knuckling shot that bounced past Buffalo goalie Dominik Hasek at 10:06 of overtime...
...theater is a Cleopatra headdress worn by Elizabeth Taylor, who seduced and married Debbie's first husband, Eddie Fisher. It's all grist for Debbie's sweet obsession; she now has some 3,000 pieces. "Passionate collectors," she notes, "don't become unpassionate." When she divorced shoe magnate Harry Karl in 1973, she says, "he wanted me to sell my movie stuff and give him half the money. I told him, 'You can have the house, you can have the furniture, but you can't have my costumes.' So I kept my children and the costumes...