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...time analyzing the data he has collected. Holmberg frets occasionally about becoming a workaholic, but clearly loves his job. "The medical sleuthing-that's the most fun. The clues start to fall into place step by step as you go through it." The disease detective's zeal is admired by his superiors. "His is the old hard-work ethic," says Dr. Mitchell Cohen, Holmberg's supervisor. "What we constantly do is pose questions. If one question doesn't pan out, he'll take another approach...
Whatever its wider aims, the offensive failed to squelch the guerrillas, who number anywhere from 100,000 to 200,000. Bolstered by their religious zeal-and, more practically, by a flow of arms and supplies from abroad-they are grimly determined to rid their homeland of the hated invader. "The Islamic faith is the force behind our jihad [holy war]," says Rebel Unit Commander Mohammed Anwar. "If we thought this was an ordinary battle, we could not fight the Soviets...
...between, we meet the villagers: cantankerous, narrowly provincial, soaked in religious zeal and, occasionally, intoxicated with a bizarre humor. The desire to escape a barren, futile existence is grimly repressed. It translates into a lurking violence. Three children taunt a woman said to be a hermaphrodite (Cecily Hobbs) and try to impale her on a hoe as if it were a pitchfork. A sadistic stepmother (Amelda Brown) torments her placidly submissive stepdaughter (Tricia Kelly) in order to "feel something." At one point, Val asks Frank: "What are you frightened of?" Frank replies: "Going mad. Heights. Beauty." Says Val: "Lucky...
...forgers' skills, sharpened by greed, malice, political zeal or simply the sheer joy of confounding learned scholars or esteemed institutions, have called into being an opposing set of skills: those of the patient, persistent document sleuths, who squint through magnifying glasses and microscopes at each potential telltale squiggle on yellowed pages or pristine documents in countless offices, from police station houses to great universities and national archives...
...spasm of reforming zeal, the Federal Highway Administration in 1976 announced that it was thinking of changing all signs on the nation's interstates from miles to kilometers. After receiving nearly 5,000 letters of protest, the FHA quickly abandoned the scheme...