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...geek-chic union of the year, It-boy director STEVEN SODERBERGH (Traffic, Ocean's Eleven) married former E! spokes-hottie JULES ASNER...
...SARS coronavirus is the 14th known member of a family of viruses named for their distinctive, crown-like shape. Eleven exist in animals?dogs, cats, rats, mice, pigs, cows, rabbits and turkeys?and two infect the human race, in which they produce that most familiar of all ailments: the common cold. Scientists, who have long suspected that humans were originally infected with common-cold coronaviruses by contact with an unknown animal many centuries ago, had already posited a possible animal connection in the current outbreak. The fact that many of the initial victims in China's southern province of Guangdong...
Zdenek Adamec stopped understanding his son, also named Zdenek, when the boy was seven. "He asked me how a nuclear reactor worked," says the father, a tombstone carver. "I had to buy a book so I could give him some answers." Eleven years later, the son was still groping for answers, this time to a much larger question: how to save a world that he felt was headed for the abyss. Last month, Adamec made up his mind. On March 6, he walked to Wenceslas Square in Prague, climbed the steps of the National Museum, doused himself with gasoline...
...with numbers painted on are gone. Instead, a computer randomly selects the numbers and displays them on a digital screen overhead. The quaint bingo lingo is no more: the two little ducks (22) have flown the coop and the two fat ladies (88) have walked off on their legs eleven (11). But innovation has its limits: an attempt to replace the daubers and paper cards with a small contraption the size of a Palm Pilot bombed. If the machine's power failed mid-game, all would be lost - and then there might just be a punch-up. Speak...
When Gioia finished school and began a business career in New York, he was faced with finding time to write outside of his eleven-hour work...