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Five years ago, Maurice Sendak came across the long-buried opera. He was electrified. "It's a very simple story, the most basic of fairy tales," says Sendak, the 74-year-old creator of the picture-book classic Where the Wild Things Are, but it spoke to a "situation that has been part of my flesh and blood and bones my whole life." The son of Polish-immigrant Jews, Sendak had a childhood marred by a "dense, terrible aura" of the Holocaust, as news of perishing loved ones hung over the family home...
...there is something or someone waiting to screw you up. If it isn't the SARS superspreader in the next hotel room, it's some fool of a suicide bomber boarding your bus. Plan your itinerary, by all means. But first of all check the somber travel advisories and wild-eyed security alerts, the shrill breaking-news bulletins, the evacuation routes. And read the small print on your travel insurance...
...Connor would like to return to Arizona with her husband. Both want a Republican President to name their replacement, and they know that retiring in 2004, an election year, would provoke a confirmation storm that could keep the court in limbo for months. Then there's the wild card, John Paul Stevens, 83, a liberal who is likely to stay but is the court's oldest member...
...Sure, she's better looking. But they're doing wonderful things with extreme makeovers these days --She wasn't going to meet Mr. Right on the set of Wild On! anyway --Their marriage is objective proof that Weird Science could really happen...
...team of Chinese microbiologists last week confirmed that the civet could indeed produce a unique effect on the human body: it might cause SARS. They've also extracted the virus from a species of wild dog and found antibodies?evidence of an earlier infection?in a Chinese badger. Those results probably confirm the long-dreaded notion that overly close cohabitation of man and animal is brewing up new, fatal plagues. Hong Kong's bird flu of 1997 was just such a creation: a virus harmless in waterfowl that jumped species to infect chickens and then mutated again, killing six people...