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...until 1975 that Rheumatologist Allen Steere, then at Yale, made sense of the malady. Steere investigated a group of children, in and around Lyme, Conn., who were suffering from a mysterious form of arthritis. He traced the outbreak to speck-size ticks of the genus Ixodes, carried mainly by mice and deer. In 1982 federal researchers isolated the culprit from the tick: a corkscrew-shaped bacterium, or spirochete, similar to the one that causes syphilis...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb when they don't know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...faster than they can be found and described. Naturalists have cataloged 1.6 million species, a small fraction of the estimated 4 million to 30 million that remain undiscovered. While most of these unknown species are insects, even a creature as garrulous and brightly colored as a parakeet of the genus Pyrrhura (its species name has not yet been assigned) eluded researchers until it was first sighted in Ecuador in 1980. "No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude," says Wilson. "We don't know for sure how many species there are, where...
...also authentically democratic. Unlike serious painting or dance or poetry, the appreciation of popular culture requires no tutelage or special sensibility, not even close attention. Florenz Ziegfeld and George Lucas create art that is one-size-fits-all. Except perhaps for Roman Catholicism, no other Western cultural genus has been as inclusive as modern pop, so truly classless. Indeed, says Fiedler, Nikes and Garfield T shirts are class camouflage. "One of the functions of pop culture," Fiedler says, "is to make it impossible to spot where a person belongs on the social hierarchy by what he's wearing, what...