Word: viruses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Block know that mystery dialogue isn't supposed to sparkle? Doesn't she realize it's supposed to be hard-boiled to the point of inedibility? None of Your Business is actually a magnificently dry social comedy, cunningly smuggled inside a meticulously researched, perfectly paced police procedural, like a virus packaged in a witty e-mail. As Sprague and Ballestrino worry away at a thin trail of clues, they banter and snipe at each other, stress about their expanding waistlines and diminishing love lives and generally behave like real human beings. It's an episode of Law & Order scripted...
...rainy spring this year produced a bumper crop of mosquitoes, making for a very buggy summer. The good news: whether you are concerned about the West Nile virus or just want to enjoy the outdoors bite-free, there is a fresh crop of products out this year that promise to fight mosquitoes. There are candles, sandalwood sticks, zappers, and traps that emit carbon dioxide (part of what attracts mosquitoes to humans). A Korean cell-phone maker is selling a ring tone that it claims will repel blood-thirsty bugs. The bad news is that the effectiveness of some of these...
...immediate cause for the plunge in travel to Asia, of course, was the SARS scare; although the World Health Organization has lifted the last of its travel bans to East Asia, news that the virus has been contained hasn't, predictably, received a shadow of the coverage the virus attracted during its reign of terror. Yet the epidemic was only the latest in a long, doleful cortege of P.R. disasters for tourism in Southeast Asia and beyond...
...every destination in East Asia with the same brush. In the late 1990s, Thailand and Hong Kong benefited from Indonesia's turmoil as travelers went to those two places in search of a safe haven. But with SARS, everybody lost. Although Thailand and Indonesia were virtually untouched by the virus, they suffered almost equally with the worst-hit destinations...
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's Administration has been vigilant in its efforts to combat hoof-and-mouth disease, the deadly virus capable of devastating a nation's agricultural livestock. Too bad he hasn't done more to eradicate foot-in-mouth disease, a lesser-known affliction that compels Japanese politicians to make ludicrous public statements. In the past month alone, a slew of lawmakers has been stricken in the latest epidemic...