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...Firefighter Colonel Wanius Amorim remembers the Simpsons every time he catches a monkey in someone's front room, drags an alligator from a back porch or gingerly lifts a snake from the street. For the commander of a Rio fire station nestled in the middle of the world's biggest inner-city forest, saving wild animals is all in a day's work...
...colleagues—John P. Enders, Weller’s former professor at the Medical School, and Frederick C. Robbins—for their research on polio. The researchers reported successfully cultivating poliomyelitis viruses in a test tube for the first time in 1949, using tissue taken from a monkey. (Enders died in 1985, Robbins...
...First Billion Is the Hardest By T. Boone Pickens; out now The latest memoir from the Texas oilman turned alternative-energy promoter is heavier on life lessons than behind-the-scenes anecdotes, though Pickens' sauciness--"Booneism #5: The higher a monkey climbs a tree, the more people can see his ass"--does entertain...
...experienced colonization, designers are less hung up on identity. "If we use elements of local culture, it's not so much a way of expressing 'Thai-ness' but more about placing things found around us that might be funny or surprising," says Pijitra Lalitasakun, who turned Hanuman, the monkey god from Hindu epic the Ramayana, into a motif that adorns items by Bangkok's Hey Pilgrim! label. The 28-year-old says that if Bangkok has identity issues they are not cultural but to do with market perception - it is seen as "the place where you buy silk and cheap...
...president for a year; his election in 1979 signaled the start of the Fundamentalist surge. ''The word of God,'' says Rogers, ''is not up for a vote.'' He insists, for example, that Adam and Eve were directly created by God, and he rejects evolution, or, as he calls it, ''monkey-monology.'' Because the annual meeting's business is done in town-meeting style, the strategy for winning S.B.C. presidential elections is getting the right voters to travel to the meeting site. The Georgia gathering figured to be the anti- Fundamentalists' last and best hope, since moderate Southern Baptists are concentrated...