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This moody and romantic tableau, which is instantly recognizable as the opening scene of John Fowles' novel The French Lieutenant's Woman, is a cinematographer's delight. The breakwater exists, just as Fowles described it, at Lyme Regis, the small English sea-coast town of which he wrote. A film company needs only to go there, dress its actors in the costumes of 1867 (the story is a 19th century period piece, seen with irony through the filter of 20th century conceptions and misconceptions) and wait for dirty weather. All true, with only one complication: the look that Sarah Woodruff...
...Lyme Disease. In 1975 Yale researchers began investigating a highly unusual cluster of arthritis cases among families living in the rural area of Lyme, Conn. Later, doctors at the U.S. submarine base in nearby New London reported several patients with a distinctive skin lesion that in Europe had been associated with tick bites. The seemingly unrelated ailments became linked when the Yale research team found that about a quarter of Lyme arthritis victims had also had the skin lesions a few weeks before their painful joint swellings began. Subsequent investigations revealed that the skin lesions, arthritis and many other ailments...
...complex of illnesses is not limited to Connecticut. Ixodes dammini is found along the East Coast from Massachusetts to Maryland, as well as in Wisconsin. A related species lives in California and Oregon. Lyme disease has occurred in all these areas...
...expert birder who has counted more than 3,000 species and, say friends, can identify a rare bird from a speeding car. Still, the work for the new book was, in his words, "slavery of a sort," involving countless 15-hour days in his studio in Old Lyme, Conn. Guarding his nearby home is a 2-ft.-high statue of Antarctica's emperor penguin, Peterson's favorite bird-some birders call him "King Penguin." Says Peterson: "I like its manner and its elegance. They are survivors in one of the harshest climates in the world...
...good guys has. Harry Lyme sees him before you do. "So long sister, good talking to you. Take care and don't let them work you too hard at that hot-shot school of yours." And he is gone, padding away noiselessly into a doorway a block down in no time...