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...prevent any direct contact with the bat colony, the roosting area of the Caverns has always been closed to the public. The Bat Flight Program has been observed by over 1,000,000 visitors. Here again, protection of the visitors and of the, bats has been observed by restriction of the visitors to an area not normally in the flight path...
Such factors, Aronson said, will distort the judgment of probability in one direction or another. With Mantle at bat in the bottom of the nineth, two outs, men on base, and the Yankees behind, the sports fan might rate the chances for a home run as high as 50-50. Ordinarily, however, the chances are only...
Public Health scientists got interested back in 1953 after a Florida boy was bitten by a bat that was found to be infected with rabies. The boy survived, but investigation showed that other apparently healthy bats were rabid too. At first, the danger from rabid bats seemed small because bat bites are a rare problem among humans. Then in 1956 a Texan who had been banding bats went partially blind, had convulsive seizures when he tried to drink water, and soon died. Rabies virus was found in his brain. In 1959 a California mining engineer who had been searching caves...
Repulsive Carpet. Alarmed by this evidence that bats can transmit rabies without biting, the Public Health Service assigned Dr. Denny Constantine, 36, a lifelong student of bats, and a crew of hardy assistants to the ugly and dangerous job of checking further. Researcher Constantine is not easily daunted. During field work in Alaska six years ago, he crawled into a den of hibernating bears and took the rectal temperature of the biggest one while pacifying the restive animal with lumps of sugar. But for his new job he needed more equanimity than ever. Bat caves are chambers of horror. Their...
...ballpark and had never won a pennant; his presence (backed up by the formidable figure of Lou Gehrig) turned the New Yorkers into the most fearsome team in baseball. To a sport that had been damaged by the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, Babe Ruth's booming bat brought new virility and respectability. Even when he struck out, Ruth was impressive-and he struck out often. But when he connected, he gave baseball its biggest moments. Nobody ever hit a ball so hard: he once drove a liner through a pitcher's legs with such force that...