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...when these Internet elephants begin to stumble, the mice get crushed. For every Amazon or Yahoo, there are 10,000 smaller Net companies that never got the chance to go public--and now probably never will. For those companies and their employees, who believed just as hard as Jeff Bezos and Jerry Yang but got to the barricades a lot later, the business climate is drastically different. Call it the new new economy...
...summer's American Pie, and Green has the equivalent of that film's gonzo pastry scene: he drops a live mouse into his mouth. Says director Todd Phillips: "In the script, Tom was only supposed to tease the mouse, but he took it a step further. In fact, six mice died in that scene...just kidding...
...westward the Vikings went. Their first stop, in about 860, was the Faeroe Islands, northwest of Scotland. Then, about a decade later, the Norse reached Iceland. Experts believe as many as 12,000 Viking immigrants ultimately settled there, taking their farm animals with them. (Inadvertently, they also brought along mice, dung beetles, lice, human fleas and a host of animal parasites, whose remains, trapped in soil, are helping archaeologists form a detailed picture of early medieval climate and Viking life. Bugs, for example, show what sort of livestock the Norse kept...
...just primates whose parenting strategies echo our own. More and more, scientists have come to realize that among creatures as diverse as mice and seals, birds and spiders, mothering is a surprisingly consistent, remarkably familiar business. If there is a Mother's Day message in all this, it's that the more we understand the animals' behavior, the better we can understand...
...American black bear, which normally gives birth to two or three cubs at a time, may walk away from one born alone, calculating that it's better to wait for a multiple birth next year than exhaust herself with a singleton now. Mice will examine offspring after they're born and eat undersize young, improving the overall fitness of the litter and giving themselves a valuable dose of protein in the process...