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Infectious diseases routinely leap from animals to humans, often with devastating effects. AIDS and Ebola originated in apes, Creutzfeldt-Jakob in cattle, West Nile in birds and SARS in a little-known animal called the palm civet. Last year the exotic-pet trade took a 3-lb. Gambian rat from Africa to Wisconsin, where it infected a prairie dog with monkeypox--the first occurrence in North America. From the prairie dog, it jumped to a human and ultimately to 87 people in six Midwestern states. Increased globalization means these alien diseases are borne around the world with appalling speed. Makes...
...brain is wider than the sky," wrote Emily Dickinson. Indeed, this 3-lb. blob can generate a need so intense that all the world has sung of it. And to make our lives even more complex, romantic passion is intricately enmeshed with two other basic mating drives, the sex drive and the urge to build a deep attachment to a romantic partner. Ah, the web of love. How these forces feed the flame of life...
Weiss then moved junior Greg Cook, who normally wrestles at 125 lbs., up a spot to the 133-lb. vacancy, now that freshman Bobby Latessa, usually a 133-pounder, has been moved to 157 lbs. Rounding out the shuffle is senior Brandon Kaufmann, who was also moved up a spot from 157 lbs., and is now competing at the 165-lb. position...
...NCAA regulations, after being moved up, Cook can no longer wrestle any lower than the 133-lb. position, while Latessa and Kaufmann cannot compete under 157 lbs. for the remainder of the season...
...Crimson lost the meet 27-13. The contest would likely have been much closer had Harvard not needed to forfeit in two weight classes. With no wrestlers in the 174- and 184-lb. weight classes, the Crimson began every meet that day down at least 12 points...