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...fazed by my imposing title of “bus captain”—instead, he and his rising first-grade compadres continually shouted out jiggly-centered jibes and poked me as I carefully sidestepped up and down the aisle of the bus. I had to bite my lips to keep from laughing, but I was stern with him—and his mother. To make matters worse, I relive the memory often. My whole family and countless other camp counselors bring up the incident weekly...
...becomes a matter of giving them a role, a character they can really bite off and do something with...
...BLOOD IS DRAWN Drinking its fill may take a mosquito a good five minutes. The fine, strawlike labrum (barely wider than a blood cell) draws slowly but also prevents the host from feeling the bite...
...imprint on his adopted hometown of Philadelphia hasn't faded with the years. If you're seeking to follow in his footsteps there, you can hear the music of the Colonial glass armonica he invented, visit places where he lived and even dine at his favorite tavern for a bite of Colonial turkey potpie...
...grownup view of catastrophe, check out Danny Boyle's 28 Days Later. In the script by Alex Garland (whose novel The Beach was filmed by Boyle), lab chimps have been injected with a virulent "rage hormone." They bite some humans, who bite others, and so on and so on. Four weeks later, London is a wasteland, its streets denuded of people, except for a few uninfected survivors and many ravenous, fast-moving zombies. "Plans are pointless," says a stubborn survivor, Selena (Naomie Harris). "Stayin' alive is as good as it gets...