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...freely roamed the aisles of the Wild Oats supermarket in which Trotta worked, but Mark Arabo, the manager of Wrigley's Market in Lakeside, Calif., observed a much more chastened customer. Over the four months that the three patronized his store, Arabo said, they always stuck to the same pattern. The two women walked meekly behind the man and never grabbed anything from a shelf. "Their behavior stood out more than their dress. It was like they weren't human. They acted like robots," says Arabo. "It was like they were subservient...
...That conclusion is reinforced by SARS cases outside China, which have almost all involved relatives and caregivers of the victims. One frightening exception to this pattern of transmission is the outbreak at the Metropole Hotel in Hong Kong's down-at-the-heel Mongkok district. Six ill-fated guests on the hotel's 9th floor appear to have caught the disease from semiretired medical professor Liu Jianlun. He is believed to have been solely responsible for carrying the disease from Guangdong into Hong Kong in mid-February, after reportedly catching it while treating patients at a Guangzhou hospital. Scientists think...
...Traces is a story of desertion and reconciliation. Charles had abandoned his two sons, Lily her daughters. Likewise, Charles and Lily moved to Australia in 1962, leaving Jackie at school in Hong Kong. (As husband to retired film star Lin Fengjiao, Jackie has repeated the pattern, often deserting her and their son to shoot movies.) Finally, Charles reunited his family in Shandong?all but Jackie, who has yet to meet his brothers...
...pattern repeated all night—all weekend in fact—as Dunn slowly lost control of the game and the series...
...detective assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and anything that's remotely suspicious, we send them the report." Two days earlier, a Fairfax County policeman's car, containing his badge and jacket, had been stolen in Prince William County. Were these random events - or part of a sinister pattern? Within hours, the task force was circulating an account of the thefts to every police and fire department in the Washington area...