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...Damon has said he's pleased to be playing a bad guy, but of course he's playing a bad guy playing a good guy. (He had a similar role, of the charming swine, in The Talented Mr. Ripley.) What's true about Colin's nature is that he's the man on the rise and on the make, with a practiced smile that can impress the cops and please the ladies. When he meets Madolyn, the shrink, he suavely spouts this apercu: "Freud said the Irish were the only people who were impervious to psychoanalysis." (The "impervious...
...Arian faxed to Islamic Jihad bosses in England and the Middle East a proposal that he run the group's finances. And in 1991, at Palestinian gatherings around the U.S., al-Arian exhorted audiences to "damn" the U.S. and Israel "until death" and said God considered Jews "monkeys and swine...
...while the TV cameras rolled, U.S. President Gerald Ford pushed up his sleeve and received his influenza vaccine. It wasn't an ordinary flu jab. In February of that year, an 18-year-old U.S. Army recruit had died of a swine flu virus, which scientists at the time believed was closely related to the virus that had caused the 1918 influenza pandemic. High-level disease experts worried that the new virus signaled the return of the 1918 flu, and barely a month after the soldier's death, Ford announced an unprecedented emergency plan to inoculate the entire American population...
...were halted after reports that hundreds of people who had received the shot had developed a rare nerve disease. While it was never conclusively proven that the vaccine caused this disease, the result was a litigation nightmare for Washington. And it all turned out to be unnecessary anyway?the swine flu death proved to be an isolated case, and nothing remotely like a pandemic ever materialized...
...side to 1918, a reminder that there is always a risk of overreacting to a pandemic threat. But the decision to crash test a vaccination program was based on the best available science at the time. (We know now that the 1918 flu was an avian virus, not a swine one.) While the 1976 program was an expensive and embarrassing mistake, it also underscored just how difficult it is to decide how to prepare for an influenza pandemic, whose schedule and severity we have virtually no way of predicting. "No one really knows what's going to happen," says...