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...write a thesis, Bush will be graduating with honors in biological anthropology and is publishing a paper along with Professor of Anthropology Richard W. Wrangham and Cory L. Costanzo '99 in the journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology. The paper, which is about how predation pressures affect baboon group size, grew out of a research seminar Bush took his junior year...
Opening with an older song "Sinaloan Milk Snake Song," Darnielle rapidly plunged into a sequence of five newer songs. Highlighting a primate theme, he offered "Baboon," an album he claimed to have written the previous afternoon...
Last December, scientists tried a new treatment for AIDS. They injected immune cells from a baboon into a patient, and then killed the baboon to perform an autopsy. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) went into action...
Tensions between the two groups exploded last December, when People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals assailed an AIDS treatment that involved taking immune cells from a baboon and then killing it for autopsy. Since baboons don't seem to get AIDS, doctors at San Francisco General Hospital had hoped that grafting the animal's cells into Jeff Getty, 38, of Oakland, California, would help him fight the disease. "We believe," a spokeswoman for PETA said at the time, that Getty is "the victim of an exploitative medical industry that has little concern for the beings, both human and animal...
Still, nothing could have prepared him for his latest, and possibly greatest, fight. It took more than a year and some intense lobbying for Getty to win the right to become the first AIDS patient to receive a baboon bone-marrow transplant. He overcame the last bureaucratic hurdle in August, when the Food and Drug Administration agreed to allow Getty, and Getty alone, to undergo the procedure. Then in the fall, he developed potentially fatal pneumocystis pneumonia, which postponed the transplant until December...