Word: levi
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Herbert W. Levi, curator of Arachnology at the comparative zoology section of the museum, first discovered the medium-sized brownish spiders in the building in 1960. After checking the building, he found it infested with the spiders. Citing a mysterious drop in the museum's silverfish population in 1937, and noting that the spiders eat silverfish, he concluded that the spiders have probably been in the museum for over 20 years...
...spiders, normally found in northern Chile and Argentina, are easily mistaken for more ordinary domestic spiders. "Everyone in the building was skeptical that the spiders were poisonous. They don't look very dangerous," Levi said...
...Levi said that he knew of only one possible spider victim. In 1960, a man was treated for a necrotic lesion but his case was not linked to the spiders for some time because the spiders had not yet been discovered and the lesions only develop some 15 to 20 days after the bite...
Offstage, James seems in many ways to be the average rock-'n'-roll musician. He wears regulation T shirts, regulation Levi's, regulation cowboy boots. He crosses living rooms or recording studios with the same ten-league strides he would use heading up a country road. He eats?and drinks?anything and everything that is put before him. Like his songs, he can easily be witty. But like his songs, he is also much turned in upon himself, rarely talkative, sometimes edgy, always haunted by the precariousness of human...
Explaining the increase in the number of concentrators, Vogt said: "People are discovering that anthropology has something to say about the world in a cross-cultural way." He added that the field has gotten "good press" especially through the work of scholars like Margaret Mead and Claude Levi-Strauss...