>>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/08/14/bird.flu.ap/index.html
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>>>>>Hmm, how does it affect VFP? <g>
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>>>>Read Jack London's "The Scarlet Plague". If one day it begin infect human by human there'll be no VFP programmer on this planet...
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>>>Are you sure it's Jack London's? I don't remember this one, though when I was young I read almost everything by him...
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>>>I recall a similar book by Edgar Allan Po...
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>>Jay's right, it was by Jack London.
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>>Jack London's books must have seemed pretty exotic from where you read them. Heck, they seemed pretty exotic to me, too. I guess it's in human nature to be intrigued by realities different from our own.
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>>If you ever make it out to Oakland, there is a Jack London Square you might visit. Well, maybe not. It was originally just a tribute to a native son. Now it is so touristy the man himself would probably upchuck. Or feed the developers to the wolves, one or the other ;-)
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>I'm not sure why I don't remember this one. I had (hmm, don't know how to say in English "sobranie sochinenij") and some volumes were my favorite, I read them many times... "Martin Iden" was one of them. I read his books in Russian, haven't yet tried to read them in English. AFAIK he is not quite popular here as he is in Russia...


His books are still in print and taught in American schools 90 years after his death, so I wouldn't say unpopular. Will contemporary bestsellers like John Grisham and Muriel Spark still be read 90 years after their deaths? I doubt it.