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“Variola Major is a virus. It has no personality, no blood for circulating, no brain for thinking. It has one task-to take over the cells of other creatures and spread. And it has the potential to kill everyone in New York City.” Mitty Blake would soon find this out.
Mitty Blake was what you might call a “slacker” in school. He only does the work necessary to get by (barely passing). In some classes, he doesn’t even do that. He never went out of his way to excel in his academics. Mr. Lynch, Mitty’s AP (or Advanced Placement) biology teacher, was well aware of this. His other teachers were all aware of this as well. But Mr. Lynch’s class was an advanced class which meant Mitty was expected to do advanced work. If he was going to pass Mr. Lynch’s class he would have to step it up a notch.
Four weeks earlier, Mr. Lynch had given an assignment. The students were to choose an infectious disease and write a term paper. The paper was going to be due on Friday February 18, 2004. Although the paper wasn’t due until the eighteenth, the following Monday, February 2, Mitty and all of his other classmates had to turn in ten pages of notes and a bibliography including four physical books. Certainly everyone had started on this. Not Mitty. He had two and a half days to take ten pages of notes from four books. Mitty hated books. Mitty didn’t want to be taken out of AP biology. That would mean that he wouldn’t have any classes with Olivia, his crush. Mitty decided that he had to put a little work into his biology paper. And he could start by turning in his notes on Monday.
Mitty’s parents had a house in Manhattan. They went there every weekend. Mitty had planned to work on the notes all weekend long. He couldn’t stand the thought of not having a class with Olivia. He was side tracked, thinking of Olivia and listening to music, until Sunday afternoon when he realized that he hadn’t even started on the notes. He also apprehended the fact that he...