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...bats started making their home under the red roof during Khmer Rouge rule, when the museum was vacant. By the early 1990s, curators were desperate to evict them as droppings?up to a ton a month?coated the artifacts below and threatened to collapse the second-floor ceiling. A putrid stench distracted gallery patrons, and on one memorable occasion, bat lice in the air elicited an allergic reaction from a visiting Thai princess...
...conservationists protested. The four species of bats living at the museum are unusual: scientists say the Cambodian Free-Tailed Bat, in particular, can be found nowhere else in the world. In addition, the museum's 2 million bats were messy but useful: they were credited with eating an estimated 17 tons of insects each night, helping reduce mosquito-borne malaria. So the government scrapped its plan to eradicate the bats. (Another factor was that the museum makes $250 a month selling bat guano.) A second, wooden ceiling, installed in 1995, failed to keep the excrement out of the gallery...
Hendricks’ bat has been hot for a while...
...nice becase Trey is always hitting right in the middle of the lineup, and you know that if you can get a couple of guys on, he can drive them in,” said senior shortstop Mark Mager. “He’s swinging a hot bat and hitting the ball the way everyone knew he could...
...like it gets too worn in at home in London—I helped the Crimson team to another 23-2 victory. This was it, I thought: a turning point. Come what may, I was an all-American boy. England had much to offer, but the crack of the bat was just too much to resist. It was in my blood, you see. Nature had at last won out over nurture. And then the game was written up in Monday’s Crimson and I found myself described as an “expatriate Englishman...