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Phung is the entertainment industry's worst nightmare, but he's very real, and there are a lot more like him. Quietly, with no sirens and no breaking glass, your friends and neighbors and colleagues and children are on a 24-hour virtual smash-and-grab looting spree, aided and abetted by the anonymity of the Internet. Every month they--or is it we?--download some 2.6 billion files illegally, and that's just music. That number doesn't include the movies, TV shows, software and video games that circulate online. First-run films turn up online well before they...
Meanwhile, top virologists in the U.S., Canada, Hong Kong, Germany and several other nations have linked up to create a sort of virtual research lab. Their goal: to understand the virus itself. They identified the SARS virus several weeks ago, and now they are trying to come up with diagnostic tests. That's crucial. Early SARS cases present the same fevers, muscle aches and diarrhea as flu victims, and without a way to distinguish between them, the public-health system could be quickly overwhelmed...
...virtual lab and independent biotech companies have already come up with several tests, but they are not yet reliable enough to be widely deployed. Canadian microbiologists reported last week that as many as 40% of their SARS patients did not test positive for coronavirus. That might be because their tests are not sufficiently sensitive or, even more worrisome, because the coronavirus has mutated enough to elude detection...
Think of the Idolettes as a virtual U.S.O. show for a time of war and anxiety. They're patriotic (plenty of praise for America in general and the troops in particular). They're full of up-by-the-bootstraps stories. They're old-fashioned (offering something for Grandma and the kids in the age of niche audiences) but in a 21st century, ethnically diverse way. There may be no better embodiment of the Bush Zeitgeist than Nashville Star's John Arthur Martinez, a Latino cowboy who sings odes to marital love, laced with Spanish. There are, too, numerous invocations...
...Paul Has a Summer Job" can be found at superior comic shops as well as bookstores both real and virtual...