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...failed ecological intervention. Since the 1950s, Europe's rabbit population - the lynx's main food source - has twice been hit by debilitating diseases. Myxomatosis decimated the rabbits after a French doctor introduced it in the 1950s to prevent the animals from eating his crops; and viral hemorrhagic pneumonia did the same in the early 1980s when it arrived from Asia, probably via shipments of contaminated meat and infected live rabbits. Not much can be done to fend off such viruses; conservationists just have to wait until the rabbits develop immunity, as they did against myxomatosis. Now the lynx's habitat...
DIED. BRUCE PALTROW, 58, influential TV producer and director responsible for such critically acclaimed shows as The White Shadow, about a white coach of a racially mixed high school basketball team, and the quirky, Emmy-winning medical series St. Elsewhere; of pneumonia, after suffering a recurrence of throat cancer; in Rome. He also directed episodes of such TV shows as Homicide, as well as movies, most recently 2000's Duets, starring Gwyneth Paltrow, his daughter with wife Blythe Danner. Paltrow was in Rome to celebrate Gwyneth's 30th birthday...
DIED. ELLIS LARKINS, 79, classical prodigy turned jazz pianist whose elegant, understated style made him one of the most coveted accompanists in jazz; of pneumonia; in Baltimore. Famous for his collaborations with Ella Fitzgerald, he also played with Louis Armstrong, Sarah Vaughan and Frank Sinatra...
...American economic sneeze gives the world a cold, does a shutdown of America's West Coast ports mean Asia is about to come down with pneumonia? Thanks to an executive injunction by President George W. Bush ordering a temporary end to a 10-day U.S. dockworker lockout, the region avoided a trip to the emergency room. But it will take months before shipping traffic disrupted by the port shutdown returns to normal, and the economic threat will linger...
...DIED. BRUCE PALTROW, 58, behind-the-scenes Hollywood veteran; from pneumonia-related complications; while on vacation with Oscar-winner daughter Gwyneth in Rome. Paltrow, husband of actress Blythe Danner, most recently directed and produced Duets, a comedy starring his daughter...