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...late. "I didn't even read the 'ILOVEYOU' part," recalls Guepiere, whom history would record as, if not Patient Zero, then surely one of the earliest victims in a global pandemic. "Only when I opened [the attachment] did I realize there was a problem." Indeed, it was a bigger problem than anybody, probably even its mischievous creator, could have imagined as computers everywhere tumbled like so many dominoes. Once again that scourge of the Internet age--a computer virus--had struck. Silently, lethally, without even a hint of a warning fever, it raced around the world at light speed, clogging...
Seven years after Booker Prize-winning Michael Ondaatje won nearly universal acclaim for The English Patient, he returns to the literary world with Anil's Ghost-a tale that verges on the same dark terrain: war. Waiting years for him to publish again, one could not imagine where on the globe Ondaatje would choose to place his pen next. The Sri Lankan-born author (transplanted to Canada) who has written evocative pieces set in the old West, the early jazz era and World War II, chooses a different time and place for this story: the Sri Lanka of the present...
...story is in many ways similar to The English Patient. The title's Anil, like Hana in the earlier novel, is someone who chooses her path very carefully-even down to naming herself. She is faced with a country that is no longer hers. By the end of the novel, it is again, and the journey of that transformation is a finely crafted piece of storytelling. The atmosphere of his story is not entirely fiction. The teardrop-shaped island country below India has been ravaged by ethnic conflict for several decades; it has been plunged into war or near...
...Despite the dramatic cuts, though, neither the corporations nor the U.N. are under any illusions that the cheaper drugs alone will solve Africa's AIDS crisis. Even at the new prices, long-term treatment therapies could cost as much as $150 a month per patient, which would leave them still beyond the reach of most of the continent's HIV sufferers. And the medical treatment and training infrastructure necessary for the complex drug regimens to function effectively will require billions of dollars of investment. And then there's the question of awareness: The World Bank estimates that only 5 percent...
CHEMO TEST In the battle to defeat cancer, chemotherapy can sometimes (albeit rarely) prove fatal--or cause such intolerable side effects that it has to be halted. Now scientists have developed a simple and, alas, still experimental test that can predict just how well a patient will handle cancer drugs. Patients have their breath analyzed (by blowing into a balloon) soon after they are injected with a tiny dose of a drug that releases carbon particles while it's being broken down by the liver. Very little carbon suggests the body will be slow to metabolize cancer drugs--and that...