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...their presence makes a resurgence of the disease more likely, because they provide a human reservoir in which the coronavirus that causes SARS can thrive and mutate. Equally alarming, the list of animal hosts also increased last week as researchers in China's Guangdong province, believed to be the origin of the epidemic, reported that a wide variety of wild animals?in addition to civet cats and raccoon dogs?now seem to carry a close version of the virus, which could jump to humans...
...recaptured the social sciences for nurture: John B. Watson, who set out to show how the conditioned reflex, discovered by Ivan Pavlov, could explain human learning; Sigmund Freud, who sought to explain the influence of parents and early experiences on young minds; and Franz Boas, who argued that the origin of ethnic differences lay with history, experience and circumstance, not physiology and psychology...
...Both of these wartime efforts were purely of civilian origin and illustrate a long-felt conviction of mine—that in a crisis, the people, instead of relying upon a government must take the initiative themselves,” Clark wrote...
...hands. Of caresses. Of games from his boyhood." Lévy also conjures up the thoughts of the admitted and since convicted ringleader, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, on the restless night before he sprung his trap on Pearl. Sheikh, Lévy finds, is a "perfect Englishman" of Pakistani origin, a chess player and champion arm wrestler, a brilliant student at the London School of Economics who embraced radical Islam during a stint in Bosnia in the early 1990s. Lévy knows from court testimony that Sheikh shaved his beard and bought Gucci shoes, a Breitling watch...
Dishes ranged in origin from many Latino cultures, and while cooked by dining hall staff, were planned by a chef from the cable channel Food Network...