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...Every public-health victory is precarious; the slightest drop in watchfulness can open the door tomorrow for the epidemic that was stymied today. "We don't have measures for success," says Van Alphen. "We only have measures for failure." But for the thousands of survivors still alive today because of those efforts, even a temporary victory is a kind of miracle. Says Waldman: "The fact that nothing has happened so far to worsen the plight of this population that has been so extraordinarily traumatized is something that people should take real pride in." If vigilance is maintained until villages...
...next film, the horror hit Halloween, Carpenter broke a few rules, as when he put a cute 10-year-old in and out of peril and then--bang!--killed her off, but his style is classic: lots of three-actor medium shots and hardly a raised voice or drop of sweat in all the bombarding. The cop (Austin Stoker), the killer (Darwin Joston), the woman (Laurie Zimmer)--all are professionals, focused on outliving a hard night...
...hoped-for orderly decline of the dollar gives way to a sharp drop; the euro hits...
EXERCISE If you've been inactive, try walking briskly or gardening for at least 30 min. most days of the week. To drop pounds, according to the guidelines, you may need...
...packages, which often force consumers to pay for channels they don't want, PCCW opted to offer a content menu that is almost entirely ? la carte. Fees for individual channels?among them BBC, HBO, the Disney Channel and MTV?start at about $2 a month. Subscribers can readily drop channels and sign up for new ones on a monthly basis with a few clicks of their remote controls. "I like the freedom," says secretary Leung Man-fung, whose pay-TV bill comes to just $10 a month. "I only wanted news, and cartoons for my children...