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BOOK Trials of the Monkey by Matthew Chapman "A funny, autobiographical story about Christian conservatism...
...forgotten). Wandering bands of vigilantes guard neighborhoods with wooden cudgels, daggers, field-hockey sticks, ceremonial swords and pikes made from butchers' cleavers. They carry whistles around their necks to warn other neighborhoods of impending attack. In the early hours, police fire flares over cultivated ground to see if the Monkey Man is hiding in the darkness. The area's 500-strong police force has been tripled. Some legislators are demanding the central government send in Elite commandos to deal with what they call "the crisis." A bounty of $1,100 has been put on his head...
...charged with playing Agent Mulder to track down the Monkey Man in northeast Delhi is Vivek Gogia, deputy commissioner of police. At 2.30 a.m. the radio in his curtained automobile crackles, setting him racing to Old Seemapuri, a warren of closely packed, illegally built two- and three-story dwellings crisscrossed with alleys. Every light in every building is on. Women and old men peer from balconies and roofs. The vigilantes?men and boys?huddle around, babbling excitedly. Singling out a tall man at the back of the crowd, Gogia asks what happened. "There was this shadow, sir," he replies. "Really...
...fears are at a pathological level, critical faculties disappear and gullibility gains control," says Sanal Edamaruku, secretary-general of the India Rationalist Association, which currently seems to be India's least populated school of belief. Edamaruku says it's no coincidence that a series on the exploits of the monkey god Hanuman, showing the popular Hindu deity bounding great distances and carrying out extraordinary physical feats, is currently being screened on TV. "People in India often find it difficult to distinguish between fantasy and reality," he says. And the citizens of New Delhi might wonder how the secretary-general finds...
...know anything about cancer are exceedingly cautious about using the C word. That's partly because it too easily raises false hopes and partly because doctors are increasingly convinced that a cure is not the only way to beat cancer. Instead, experts believe, by throwing a series of monkey wrenches into the cancer cell's machinery, the new therapies could transform cancer from an intractable, frequently lethal illness to a chronic but manageable one akin to diabetes and high blood pressure. Says Dr. Leonard Saltz, a colon-cancer specialist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering: "I don't think we're going...