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...that sounds like a perfect retirement gig, caretakers are quick to point out that it's not all bucolic bliss. "Some property owners want servants, not caretakers," says Keith Cliver, 53, who with his wife Emily Moddelmog, 37, currently caretakes at the Oasis, a bird sanctuary in a former pecan orchard in Benson, Ariz. "We worked at an estate in Las Vegas where the owner eventually got rid of all the help and wanted the two of us to do everything 24/7." They quit shortly thereafter...
Caretaking often doesn't come with benefits. Cliver and his wife have worked for owners who provided health insurance and for others who didn't. They are currently waiting to get it through the Oasis, but meanwhile they are on their...
...this pesky protozoan can be removed only through filtration. Unlike bacteria, they are not readily killed by chlorine. Furthermore, the tests that water-purification plants routinely rely on to detect biological contaminants do not pick up the presence of cryptosporidium. What makes the parasite especially nasty, explains microbiologist Dean Cliver of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is that the oocysts do not hatch in water -- in this case Lake Michigan water -- but remain dormant until they are swallowed by some thirsty creature...
...intestinal walls and begin to mature. While there, scientists speculate, they probably exude some irritating toxin -- just the thing to cause the host organism to expel the oocysts produced by the adult organisms through diarrhea and vomiting. "A sick person will produce 100 million oocysts a day," marvels Cliver...
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