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...time that Aldrich and Rosario Ames were spending at least $30,000 a month with credit cards. By August the team knew that hundreds of thousands of dollars had been deposited in Ames' accounts in the Dominion Bank of Virginia, much of the money from wire transfers of undetermined origin. As the mole hunters dug into Ames' bank accounts in the fall of 1992, they discovered that by that time, wire transfers of about $1 million and cash deposits of more than $500,000 had been made...
...there is still no answer to the crucial question of how Kimfumu came by the virus in the first place. As a lab technician, he may have been exposed to a contaminated blood sample, but the ultimate origin of Ebola remains a mystery. Scientists suspect that it has probably circulated in wild animals such as rodents for years, and only makes the jump into humans when the two populations come into contact. Observes Yale epidemiologist Dr. Robert Ryder: "These viruses basically say to man, 'You stick to your territory and I'll stick to mine.' But then man begins...
...using drugs that partly suppress the immune system, doctors can prevent the body from rejecting transplants of human origin. When organs from one species are placed in another, however, the recipient reacts even more violently and quickly-usually attacking the foreign tissue within a matter of minutes or hours...
Perhaps the most controversial episodein the mermaid's odyssey was in Charleston, SouthCarolina. Charles Darwin had recently publishedhis Origin of Species, which aroused muchdebate among naturalists and the public alike. Thetheory that the human species evolved from monkeysdisturbed our collective arrogance...
...with a volume that ran to more than 1,300 pages. A second installment is in progress. Meantime, the industrious Mailer offers Oswald's Tale: An American Mystery (Random House; 828 pages; $30), a kind of nonfiction psychobiography in which he turns his novelist's imagination to the '60s origin myth, John Kennedy's assassination. Oswald's Tale can be judged as investigative journalism or as literature. On either count a fair judgment would be favorable, though mixed. Sunshine and clouds. As in much of Mailer's work, moments of real inspiration and breathtaking shrewdness have been crowded into...