Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assigned to catch rodents for research was suddenly felled by hemorrhagic fever. The lab was immediately quarantined and work interrupted for several months, but the incident made Lee even more certain that the carrier was indeed a rodent. During seven years, the research team collected more than 2,400 mice and other rodents, examined countless human and animal organs and isolated no fewer than 16 unknown viruses...
...Justice officials were unamused. Startled by what turned out to be a secret army of squatters in their gray stone colossus, they demanded a swift return to capital punishment, and in came the exterminators. Due process? The FBI could not be called in to investigate, cracked a spokesman, because "mice are not included in the new security guidelines...
...Memoirs of Chief Red Fox, told it all-in fact, more than all: in his memoirs, the chief recalled his days acting in vaudeville and the movies, and touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's wild West show. He remembered catching fish with the hooked ribs of field mice and the braves' 1876 victory dance after they had wiped out General Custer. But it was his blow-by-blow account of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre that taxed his publisher, McGraw-Hill. Investigations showed that some 12,000 words of The Memoirs had been lifted more or less directly...
That is the core of Bilby's Doll, Carlisle Floyd's new opera, which was given its world premiere last week by the Houston Grand Opera. Floyd, 49, has written successful operas from Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights and John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, but is best known for Susannah, a retelling of the biblical story of Susanna and the elders from the Apocrypha. Since its first performance by the New York City Opera in 1956, Susannah has become the most frequently performed full-length American opera written since World...
...turned to incredulity. One researcher after another reported an inability to duplicate the transplants. Summerlin, who had moved from the University of Minnesota to New York's Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, found himself under enormous pressure. One March morning, he gathered up a dozen grafted mice and started upstairs from his laboratory to show his work to Dr. Robert Good, head of S.K.I., and the dominant figure of modern immunology. On the way, Summerlin took a felt-tipped pen from his pocket and darkened the skins of two animals...