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...Cat Makarewich burned Harvard for 11 of her 13 during the stretch, nailing three wide open treys, the last of which ended Penn’s 4:23 scoring drought and snapped the Crimson’s 13-point...
...wearing this spring? Big, chunky ones, if fashion forecasts are anything to go by. The thin, neat frames in gunmetal and black, so beloved over the past two years, are well past their sell-by, as are rimless models. In their place, expect lots of ovals and cat's-eyes, and even more mirror coating and patterned plastics. The classic Ray-Ban Aviator is tipped to make a big comeback, while die-hard fashionistas will flip over multilayered lenses, allowing tone-on-tone coloring. Be seen at the poolside in nothing less...
...brutal culling of masked palm civets from Guangdong wildlife markets and farms that commenced last week has only exacerbated the sense that matters had been spiraling out of control. Forestry officials incinerated some civets, boiled others to death and drowned still more in disinfectant. Also called a civet cat, the small, furry mammal with big innocent-looking eyes is unrelated to real cats, being more of a first cousin to the mongoose. Nevertheless, it was as if China was sacrificing thousands of animals to ward off the Fourth Horseman of the Apocalypse...
When Yi brought those samples back to Hong Kong, a frightening picture started to emerge. Not only was he again finding the SARS coronavirus in a host of animals--the civet cat, as well as various types of badger--he was astonished, when he did the genomic sequencing, to observe that these coronaviruses had actually mutated to become more similar to the SARS coronavirus samples taken from humans during the outbreak one year ago. All this confirmed that the disease that had infected humans was again at large. The animals that showed the highest infection rate by far were...
...that they carry a similar virus. Dr. Rob Breiman, an epidemiologist from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is leading the WHO team currently tracing the origins of last year's epidemic in Guangdong. Breiman observes, "Everyone certainly thinks this is meaningful. But where is the civet cat in the chain? Are they getting it from another animal? Are civet cats infecting rodents as well as humans? We just don't know exactly where civet cats fit in." But he concedes, "From a political and public-health standpoint, it was a reasonable step in response...