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...some Walt Disney movie about an astronaut and a monkey going up together in a space capsule; after the movie, some guy came out and played too-happy music on a huge organ. Then my grandmother grabbed me and rushed me down to the second row so we could get good seats for the stage show. That was my first stage show, one of the famous Great Easter Shows, and it was just amazing. The way the Rockettes did that kickline and all those people flying around the stage in glittery costumes--even the orchestra was incredible. I never knew...
...Curious George" series is well known throughout the world. The little monkey became tremendously popular soon after the 1938 publication in France and England of the first book, titled simply "Curious George...
...Curious George" was Rey's second book. She and her husband had not intended to write successive books about the little monkey, but widespread acclaim for George persuaded them to continue his adventures...
These are amiable qualities for the computer; it imitates life like an electronic monkey. As computers get more complex, the imitation gets better. Finally, the line between the original and the copy becomes blurred. In another 15 years or so-two more generations of computer evolution, in the jargon of the technologists-we will see the computer as an emergent form of life...
...largest single consumer of rhesus monkeys in the U.S., as foreseen in the 1955 treaty, is the polio-vaccine testing program. Lederle Laboratories of Pearl River, N.Y., now the sole U.S. manufacturer of the vaccine, grows the Sabin attenuated virus strains in cultures of African green monkey kidney cells. Samples of each batch of vaccine (currently totaling about 25 million doses a year) are then injected into the brain cavities or spinal columns of 45 rhesus monkeys. After three weeks of clinical observation, the animals are "sacrificed"-killed humanely by an overdose of sodium pentothal-so that their nervous tissues...