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...polio epidemic in Indonesia meningitis in Upper Volta, malaria in Zanzibar, toxic reaction to polluted cooking oil in Spain and observing an immunization program against childhood diseases in China. Dr. Bess Miller, 35, was exhausted from working on the AIDS epidemic last year when the phone at home rang one evening. "My first thought was that they wanted to send me somewhere," she recalls. They did. Soon she was in the Israeli-occupied West Bank investigating a mysterious malady afflicting young Palestinian schoolgirls. Miller and Israeli health officials concluded that the problem was caused by a wave of hysteria...
This summer could see an epidemic of illegal taping. Several potential blockbusters are being released in addition to Jedi, which last week rang up the biggest one-day box office in history ($6.2 million). Other surefire sequels: the 13th James Bond film, Superman III and Staying Alive, the follow-up to Saturday Night Fever. Says William Nix, who heads the antipiracy division of the Motion Picture Association of America: "These films have built-in demand for illegal copies. The damage could be the worst ever...
Italy was different. Very different. For starters, theft is rampant in Italy--a type of thievery tinged with miscnievousness. In my first week at work a colleague and I went to his apartment for lunch one day. During our meal the phone rang. His wife answered, spoke briefly and hung...
Whatever the merits of Lang's efforts, they have certainly been visible-and audible. Last year, for example, he decided that the French should mark the summer solstice with a national "musical festival" in which everyone would simultaneously pluck, pound, tingle and bow musical instruments as church bells rang and neighborhood salsa bands played. Right on cue, 5 million French joined in an exuberant celebration that banged on from 8:30 p.m. until well past midnight. Lang has filled the once empty courtyard of Paris' staid Louvre museum with exhibitions of new French fashions, displayed to the thump...
...phone rang. It was the wardrobe man from the TV series Quincy, which is filming a two-part episode at the institution, with Campbell in the role of a possibly murderous administrator of a convalescent home. As the fund raiser spoke, another TV series, Remington Steele, began filming a scene on the premises, and a handful of the 300 people being cared for here would pick up $174 for being extras, for doing what they would do normally. It is a frequent affair, and the deal seems foursquare, with the residents keeping a hand in the business and the business...