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...cage with more than 2,000 scorpions, handily beating the old mark of zero days JEAN-YVES EMPEREUR Archaeologist wins apology from Tomb Raider gamemaker for using his name. This puts the kibosh on our new PC game: Super Jean-Yves EUROPEAN VERMIN New study says that an Ebola-like virus, not rats, caused the Black Plague. Rats, it turns out, were actually responsible for the Renaissance Losers WILT CHAMBERLAIN Late basketball star's $4.3 million "luxury love nest," including water-bed floor, still unsold. Come on, over 20,000 women can't be wrong PENTHOUSE READERS 94-year...
...MALCOLM IN THE MIDDLE (Fox). More lovable than Raymond, more destructive than Ebola, the sugar-buzzed Malcolm dropped a firecracker down the shorts of the family-sitcom genre. Jane Kaczmarek, as ferocious, loyal Lois, is not just a mom but the life force...
DIED. MATTHEW LUKWIYA, Ugandan doctor who led the country's fight to contain an Ebola outbreak that began in September; days after showing symptoms of the disease; in Gulu, Uganda. Lukwiya, who was in his early 40s, was the first to recognize that people were contracting the virus and is credited for the relatively low death toll, which reached 156 last week...
Laurie Garrett is a reporter for Newsday and the author of Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Zaire...
...nobody in America ought to rest easy, thinking that Ebola, HIV, hepatitis C, malaria and other scourges that now claim record numbers of people worldwide are "over there"--not here. As long as health care workers "over there" are reusing non-sterile syringes and medical equipment, have no rapid way of contacting international or even national health authorities, lack basic laboratory diagnostic capacities and are overwhelmed by an astonishing array of background diseases that sap the time and intellectual stamina of their staff, nasty microbes will continue to break out. And, as happened with HIV, eventually something "over there" will...