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...starting to look as if this year's flu season could be a bad one. Influenza cases began a month early, a particularly nasty strain of the virus popped up too late to be included in vaccine preparations, and at least nine flu-stricken children in Colorado and Texas have died. Now comes word that vaccine manufacturers have shipped their entire inventory--enough for the usual quota of 80 million shots. But demand has been so high that some areas are beginning to see shortages...
...arrives bearing takeout from Spice, is an extroverted personality who has decided to protect himself from the snow in layers of cashmere sweaters rather than a jacket. He encourages an auditioner stricken with a tickly throat: “Can you carry a tune? You’ll be fine...
...with his illness; and Joe and Harper Pitt (Patrick Wilson and Mary-Louise Parker), a closeted gay Mormon lawyer and his disturbed, pill-popping wife. Around them orbit historical and mythological figures: Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), the diabolical former aide to Senator Joseph McCarthy who is gay, closeted and stricken with AIDS; the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep), whom Cohn, by pulling strings, got executed for treason; and an angel (Emma Thompson)--the spiritual avatar of America. When she smashes through the ceiling of Prior's apartment to draft him as an unwilling prophet, all hell breaks loose...
...least six people and forced 15,000 from their homes in southern France receded at the week's end. But three days of heavy rains and high winds left 250,000 people without drinking water and 37,000 without electricity. President Jacques Chirac pledged €12 million for the stricken region. Consuming Passion GERMANY Computer expert Armin Meiwes confessed at the opening of his murder trial to killing - and eating - a man he met via the Internet, but claimed victim Bernd-Jürgen Brandes was a willing participant. Cannibalism is not a crime in Germany, so Meiwes is charged...
...nine major card companies, eight lost money in the first half of 2003; losses at Samsung Card, the country's second-largest issuer, totaled $850 million in the first nine months of the year. Two banks, Korea Exchange Bank and Woori Financial, recently announced rescue plans for their stricken card units. A chain of collapses is unlikely. But to some observers, the situation is disturbingly like the near meltdown of South Korea's financial system in the late 1990s. "The scale [of card-company losses] is not insubstantial," says Hank Morris, an analyst with IRC Consulting in Seoul...