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...measures fail to eliminate SARS quickly or completely, they should at least minimize the danger. "People should be concerned," says Ostroff. "But I don't think they should be alarmed." The minuscule murderer in Dr. Nicholls' microscope sights is still potentially deadly. But it no longer looks like the monster it appeared to be just a few weeks ago. --Reported by Jim Erickson, Carmen Lee and Bryan Walsh/Hong Kong, Sora Song/New York, Matthew Forney/Beijing and Daffyd Roderick/Toronto
...Greeks staved off the Persians, Genghis Khan stopped short of Kiev, and the Cold War ended with no major Eastern incursions. But it appears that a new monster has risen from the East, this time in the form of 7’6 Rockets’ center Yao Ming. Yao has arrived in full force, and his impact has been felt both in the paint and in the world of marketing, where Yao has been a smash hit in the past year...
What did Kennedy expect? Khrushchev understood that style of statecraft. He had learned from the monster himself, sitting at Joseph Stalin's right hand--or in his savage vicinity--for decades as cheerleader, yes-man and ideological dogsbody: a "nice guy," as his Kremlin cronies called him, who cheerfully survived Stalin's almost recreational paranoia even when so many of the evil crew (including Yezhov and Beria) were led offstage and shot...
...audience won't catch the kind of maple-busting noise Kasdan is looking for. Kasdan won't have it. That's because he knows that horror isn't so much shot as constructed. Even the most artful scared face looks stupid on the big screen if the computer-generated monster is cheesy, the sound effects flat, the silences too short or the cuts too slow. So compared with the rush of filming, say, My Dinner with Andre, making a horror movie is painful, boring, detail-obsessive work...
...learned their personas for the next three days’ worth of practice. Starting this afternoon, they’ll be running the Kansas State offense and simulating the defense. One enterprising impersonator will even be called upon to role-play the Wildcats’ 6’4 monster center, Nicole Ohlde (but goodie—she’s a Naismith Player of the Year finalist...