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City Councillor Alice K. Wolf said the council will definitely look into the issue. She has heard about an infected raccoon at the Cambridge golf course, she said, but emphasizes that the story is strictly "hearsay...
...them." A nonwriting author of great reputation is described as "Henry James with bowel movements." Social gradations are precisely noted, and the , level of smart-alecky prose is satisfactorily high, although there are lapses. McInerney uses amuletic and quotidian in the same herniated sentence, and calls three different women "raccoon-eyed," which sounds like something Philip Marlowe said while ducking bullets...
Rabies began to spread northward in 1977, when 3,500 Florida raccoons were imported into West Virginia to be hunted for sport. A number of them were rabid and quickly transmitted the disease to other forms of wildlife and to some humans: rabies killed 13 people in the U.S. during the past decade. "Once raccoon rabies is here, it's here to stay," says Dr. Matthew Cartter, an epidemiologist with the Connecticut State Department of Health. "This is a long-term problem...
...when she studies or unwinds. Nights of tumbling into bed at 3 a.m. make her feel "as if my brain isn't moving as quickly as it should," says Schwartzman, noting that the circles under her eyes keep getting darker. "My mother told me I look like a raccoon...
Denny McLain, the Detroit Tigers pitcher, had a delightful alibi for two mashed toes that cost the 1967 pennant. He said he hurt himself shooing a raccoon away from a garbage can. Whether the raccoon had a Mob connection was a matter of speculation, but McLain was definitely the garbage can. When his bookmaking sideline was uncovered, he blurted, "My biggest crime is stupidity." Actually, it was just the thing at which he was most accomplished...