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...just north of Philadelphia. Arrayed on tray-size boards and more than 20 6-ft.-tall racks are some 50,000 living spiders representing dozens of species: sleek, lacquered western black widows, hairy fishing spiders, palm-size Gramostola spatulata from Chile, even a fist-size, cocoa-brown African king baboon tarantula...
Typical working mom? No, a wild baboon living on the plains of Kenya. But in ways that are deeper and more resonant than most people realize, female baboons and other nonhuman primates are typical working moms. They struggle with the same challenges that human mothers face and work out surprisingly similar solutions. Tamarin mothers in the Amazon Basin rely on aunts and grandmothers to tend the young while the mothers forage for food. Moms and dads among Brazil's titi monkeys take turns minding the kids and bringing home the bacon, just as in any well-adjusted two-income human...
...week I tried out a global-positioning system, a clip-on that superimposes a real-time compass onto any map, a digital voice recorder and a probe that checks variables like light, salinity and temperature. (I'm told it was recently used to take the temperature of a pregnant baboon--I hope they sent me a fresh one.) Clearly, this isn't a battle that will be won on the add-on front...
...Britney Spears, sometimes it's Euro house). And from 12:30 on, it's sketch-o-rama. Always a good time....Regis Philbin just signed a $20 million extension on his "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" contract. What? Is it me, or could we place a baboon in that chair and people would still watch?...Charlize Theron is South African for "Bad News"...Junior Parents Weekend will flood the Square with tourists this weekend and cries of "Quick! Hide the porn!" will be heard from many a junior boys' suite... When I asked a friend what's trendy this...
...drama in Lion King territory, with five radio-friendly tunes written and sung by Phil Collins. It has a standard villain: a grating white hunter (whose musculature nicely mimics Kerchak's, thus suggesting their similarity as imperfect male role models for the boy). It has a reeeeally cute baby baboon. It enfolds our hero in a dream jungle, painted in the lushest of sherbetty forest colors and shot in a new, virtual 3-D format called Deep Canvas that vivifies the scenes. Its set pieces (Tarzan swipes a tail hair from Tantor the elephant, fights Sabor to the death, studies...