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Once the first cases of anthrax exposure appeared in Florida and the envelope became a potential weapon of mass destruction, we got to see what panic looks like. On Tuesday an office worker in suburban Virginia settled down on a toilet seat, yanked off a piece of double-ply toilet paper and found a message written between the leaves: "You're sitting in anthrax, and you're dead." The investigators rushed in: false alarm. The Nashville, Tenn., haz-mat team was called out five times in 48 hours, all for hoaxes. A woman phoned in a report that her computer...
...Brockovich tells just such a story. To be sure, Soderberg’s nuanced cinematographic virtuoso played no small role in the movie’s success. His refreshingly honest, underproduced visual aesthetic won him a second Oscar at the 73rd annual Academy Awards for his harrowing portrayal of suburban American drug culture in Traffic. But this is icing on the proverbial cake—in the case of Brockovich, Soderberg’s genius is merely superstructure to an already captivating biography...
...first part of the book reads like a pastoral of a child's suburban springtime. Jon, the focus of the book, spends his laconic, carefree schooldays fooling around with his best friend Bjorn, reading comic books, eating candy and telling jokes. He lives in a slightly odd, magical universe where a pterodactyl may swoop down and fly off with his kite to his mild surprise. Stilts are used instead of cars and sometimes Jon's father lets him "drive it to the garage." The characters all have the faces of animals, but not in any sort of realistic...
...last fall Stevens, the CEO of Ridgeview Medical Center, a $110 million-a-year hospital and network of clinics in suburban Minneapolis, opted for an experimental course of treatment. He offered his 800 full-time doctors, nurses, administrators and other personnel the choice of a new scheme called a "defined contribution" health plan, courtesy of a local start-up known as Definity Health...
...called Beghal network - named after Djamel Beghal, a Franco-Algerian Muslim, bin Laden associate and network coordinator. That sweep came a day after British police apprehended three men, including Kamel Daoudi, 23, a Frenchman who escaped the Sept. 21 capture of seven co-members of the Beghal group in suburban Paris. The joint European crackdown began on Sept. 13, when Belgian and Dutch authorities apprehended six extremists said to be part of a plan to attack U.S. targets in France - including the American embassy in Paris. "This effort prevented what could have been more very deadly attacks," says a French...