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...tailed bats that roost in Bracken Cave near San Antonio, Texas, from spring to fall consume 250 tons of insects every night as they swarm to altitudes of 10,000 ft. Farmers are not the only ones who benefit. A single little brown bat can speedily clear a suburban backyard of pesky mosquitoes, lapping up 600 bugs an hour...
...matter how her political stances have evolved, though, McCorvey's contribution to the history of abortion rights America has already been made. No backyard baptism will change the decision of the Supreme Court. More importantly, even if McCorvey had been an Operation Rescue follower 20 years ago, Weddington and her colleagues would have found another Roe to represent their fight; no doubt, the same rights would have been...
...worried should Americans be? Plenty, suggests David Quinn, 41, who lives in Briarcliff Manor, New York. An avid jogger, Quinn was stretching in his backyard when he spotted a little black dot on his leg. Once he realized that it was a tick, he quickly removed it with a pair of tweezers. But not quickly enough. Four days later, Quinn fell violently ill. "I had a fever of 102 degrees, and it felt like a hammer was banging in my head," he recalls. "I couldn't keep my head up, but I couldn't lie down either because my back...
Those who worry whether they can ever again risk a hike through the woods or even enjoy a backyard barbecue may find some comfort in the fact that both types of Ehrlichiosis are easily cured by doxycycline. And since doxycycline works against Lyme disease as well, doctors can, when in doubt, cover all contingencies by using this drug for patients who have been bitten by a tick. A downside of doxycycline: it makes the skin overly sensitive to sunlight and is not normally recommended for pregnant women and young children. The old Lyme-disease precautions now carry an added imperative...
Virtual eons ago, when people still socialized over martinis and not via modems, reading was a solitary pastime confined largely to the bedroom and the backyard. Call it a paradox of the online age-or maybe a backlash against it -- but book reading has suddenly gone aggressively public. The old-fashioned bookstore has been transformed into a convivial hang-out spot where customers can get cappucino, conversation, and a cushy chair for perusing the latest Elmore Leonard or the earliest Dostoyevsky...