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...mild winter and heavy spring rains across much of the country have led to predictions that the mosquito-borne West Nile virus, which killed 284 Americans last year, will be even worse this summer. But while West Nile prevention and surveillance programs are heating up around the country, mosquito breeding depends on capricious factors like local ecological systems, making it difficult to tell how bad this year's infestation will ultimately be. But West Nile--bearing mosquitoes are hardly the only pests looking to have a big summer. --By Molly Worthen...
...Democrats. The party's activists, especially minority groups, civil libertarians and the Hollywood faction, would have been re-energized. One can imagine Tim Robbins furiously licking envelopes, and Barbra Streisand driving platoons of senior citizens to the polls. But the Supreme Court's temperate course-and the President's mild reaction-reasserts Bush's claim to moderation. For those same reasons, the President is probably praying that no one resigns from the court before 2004, leaving him with a hellacious, polarizing confirmation battle in the midst of a presidential campaign...
...foreign intelligence.) According to Israeli intelligence officials, he has had a more profound effect on the Prime Minister's handling of Palestinian terrorists than any other adviser. "He has the Prime Minister's ear," says a senior Israeli security official. With 27 years' service in the Shin Bet, the mild-looking Dichter, who once worked as an undercover, in-flight security guard for El Al, knows how to talk to Sharon, who likes to hear details and facts rather than opinions...
...Hulk character could be Chopper Read's mild-mannered cousin, a mess of rage and repression. Understand that Bana does not play the Hulk, that mean green machine. He is Bruce Banner, the sweet, troubled scientist who, when his anger starts to bubble, hands the heavy lifting, mauling and rock smashing to a computer-generated, volatile giant. (Think Shrek, off his meds.) Bana's Banner is a Clark Kent who never gets to be Superman - which means the actor had to Act. "He exists on his own as a confused, complicated character," says Bana. "Ang basically said, ?There's light...
...Bragg, a Pulitzer prizewinning feature writer, was suspended after he filed a story about oystermen in Florida that had been largely reported by an uncredited intern. Bragg further enraged the newsroom when he claimed that Times national reporters did things like that all the time. When Raines issued a mild and tardy response, many of his people felt he had sold them...