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...stunt butt was needed for this model turned actress, whose sultry looks and good-natured smirk helped establish her as the gal-pal of choice to such aging screen heroes as Clint Eastwood (In the Line of Fire), Kevin Costner (Tin Cup) and Dustin Hoffman (Outbreak). "There's a sense of ease working with her because she doesn't take herself too seriously," says Mel Gibson, who co-starred with Russo in two Lethal Weapon sequels as well as the kidnapping drama Ransom. Although Russo jokes about her recurring roles as sidekick to mature macho men, she's easygoing enough...
Authorities in Israel are getting ready for a particular kind of millennium bug: a major outbreak of the Jerusalem Syndrome. On Monday, clergymen and officials met in the city to discuss how to cope and deal with the thousands of visitors -- perhaps as many as 40,000 -- who will come down with religious delusions when some 4 million Christian pilgrims start converging on the Holy Land for the year 2000 celebrations. The syndrome, in which visitors imagine they are biblical figures and act out their religious visions, is not uncommon in ordinary years. Authorities fear it could become a major...
...with loud bangs and many whimpers, in a liar's presidency and on the ghastly fields of the former Yugoslavia. But it's almost impossible to exaggerate how deeply Americans felt this destiny in the period covered by this show, roughly from the Administration of Theodore Roosevelt to the outbreak of the cold war. And they had reason to believe...
...thesis season passed without an explosion of publicity about new cases. The near-hysteria of last year s perceived epidemic remained just a memory. Now, a year after the first rash of publicity, it seems appropriate to ask just what happened. Was it just some sort of premature millenial outbreak? God s belated answer to the prayers of the Luddites? Or is the the perceived drop-off merely a mirage, a product of the short attention span of our own Fourth Estate? The fact is, no one really knows...
...fact remains that Harvard s outbreak is not the first time that RSI has acted out and behaved irrationally. In the early 1980s Australia experienced an RSI pandemic, one which in some places disabled as much as 30 percent of its workforce. In other places, though, it remained unheard of. The incidence rate varied wildly, often among the same professions or even the same company, and no correlation could be found between the repetitiveness of a job or its ergonomics and the number of RSI cases reported. Strangest of all, by 1987, it had virtually disappeared...