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Precisely how it?s doing that is baffling experts, for the killer, known as devil facial tumor disease (DFTD), is as mysterious as it is disfiguring. Today Mooney?s team are checking their 50 traps - lengths of PVC pipe pierced with air vents and nestled in shady spots - measuring, weighing and attaching microchips to healthy and sick devils as part of a new statewide monitoring program. There?s still no diagnostic test, so the team must check the face and gums of every animal, disinfecting each trap as they empty it. But there?s no missing the disease...
...ascot) is today as much an anachronism as the New Yorker?s Eustace Tilley (a fop with a monocle). Or as Hefner, in his silk pajamas and red smoking jacket, when billionaires wear T shirts. Hef, with his interchangeable sex partners (two are twins) and his trademark pipe traded in for Diet Pepsi and Viagra, has become what we are all in danger of morphing into as we grow old: parodies of our younger selves...
...With a daily cap of 6,000 skiers, Deer Valley's slopes are uncrowded and meticulously groomed; the on-slope cuisine is outstanding. The Olympic legacy is more visible at the neighboring park city mountain resort, where the eagle superpipe (wider and taller than a half-pipe) offers some whiplash spectating as snowboarders try to prove that gravity is for wimps. Park City is as much a pedestrian town as it is a ski town, with restaurants, bars and shops an easy walk for tired ski legs...
Various ceremonial gifts, such as the Jefferson peace medal and pipe tomahawk, were given by Lewis and Clark to tribal chiefs, who reciprocated with gifts of clothing like the ornately fringed warrior shirt...
Similarly, the importance of ceremonial pipe-smoking as a major diplomatic ritual is clearly discernible from the prominent, central placement of a large pipe crested with feathers and red cloth...