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...current outbreak in northern Uganda once again finds the virus taking advantage of poor medical facilities and funeral practices. And, once again, classic public health efforts are in place to bring the epidemic under control. Like its predecessor in Zaire, this outbreak has come to world attention months after it began, and only when health care workers, including foreigners, have succumbed. The full scope of the epidemic, including evidence it may also be expanding in Sudan and southward towards Uganda's capital city, Kampala, has yet to be determined. Regardless of how large its scope may be, however, the same...
...these activities derive from essential places in us. Psychologist Jerome Bruner says children acquire language in order to tell the stories that are already in them. We do our learning through storytelling processes. The man who arrives at our door is thought to be a salesman because his predecessor was a salesman. When the patternmaking faculties fail, the brain breaks down. Schizophrenics suffer from a loss of story...
Sherman-Palladino wrote earlier for Roseanne, which shares Gilmore's honest, flaws-and-all mother-daughter relationship. And Roseanne's John Goodman stars in Normal, Ohio, which echoes its predecessor's discordant small-town setting, if not nearly as well. Creators Bonnie and Terry Turner (That '70s Show) conceived it as a buddy comedy between a gay and a straight man (The Odd Couple without the subtext) but retooled it; now the gay Butch (Goodman) returns to his small town to reconcile with his unaccepting parents and his grown son. Terry Turner says the creators wanted to base the show...
Gary David Goldberg, the creator of Spin City (Wednesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), lived his own scary story with Fox's loss. To replace Fox, he needed a big-enough star to "legitimately stand on his own" without imitating his well-liked predecessor. He picked a departure, all right--Sheen, lately out of rehab and one of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss's most infamous customers. "I saw it as an opportunity to get back into the fold," says Sheen. It took eight script drafts to introduce deputy mayor Charlie Crawford, a party boy we first see waking...
...past performance is any indication, Jonas is ready. In his limited action, Jonas has often performed on par and, at times, above the standards set by his predecessor. He sparkled in the Crimson's playoff run two years ago, delivering brilliant performances against offensive juggernaut RPI. In that same year, Jonas finished with better stats than Prestifilippo, securing a 3.22 GAA versus...