If there is no genuine crisis, a manufactured one will have to do. By Cynthia Tucker During the summer, I got hooked on a TNT drama called "The Last Ship," an apocalyptic thriller about a global pandemic that wipes out most of the human population. Cynthia Tucker As it happens, the telltale signs of this killer plague bear a striking resemblance to the symptoms of the Ebola virus. Indeed, Hollywood has been inspired by Ebola for decades, almost since the virus was first identified in 1976. But in those fictional crises, including that portrayed in the 1995 film "Outbreak," starring Dustin Hoffman, the virus has changed -- either through mutation or human intervention -- to...
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