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...version of the plan, developed locally by Harvard Medical School epidemiologist Richard Platt, is already operating in the Boston metropolitan area...
...system] works by counting the number of people who seek care because they might have the earliest manifestations of biological agents," Platt said...
...Platt hopes his system will alert the public to not only biological attacks, but also to epidemics that arise naturally...
Good romantic comedies are easy to watch, but they're awfully hard to make. "They get predictable," says producer Marc Platt (Legally Blonde). "You know how they're going to end. Two people are going to wind up together, so you have to make sure that the journey is really interesting." And unlike the golden age of romantic comedies, when Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy were trading brilliant barbs, today most of the best writers of the genre are busy working on TV shows like Friends, Sex and the City and Will & Grace. And today's male stars know they...
...alum. That last criterion is not so crass as accepting a parent's proffered check, but the difference is only of degree, not kind. In 20 years or 50, loyalty is expected to breed generosity. Usually it does. Like stealing bread and sleeping under bridges, Rev. Platt's error - linking the quid too closely to the quo - is one much easier for the poor to make than the rich...