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...monkey business started back in 1973 when Charles River Laboratories set up a breeding colony of rhesus monkeys on an island in the Florida Keys. Since then the primates have gone ape, swelling in numbers to more than 4,000, fouling the water and destroying endangered mangrove trees on state-owned land. Despite protests from environmentalists and nearby property owners, Bausch & Lomb Inc., which bought the colony in a package deal in 1984, refused to relocate it. Then in May the state department of natural resources quietly agreed to a settlement in which Bausch & Lomb would be allowed to phase...
...estimated 70% to 80% of heroin addicts. Methadone also tends to reduce coke use, but less dramatically. While methadone may wean half of those treated from cocaine, buprenorphine could slash the number of coke abusers to almost nil, says Yale researcher Thomas Kosten. A Harvard study of rhesus monkeys habituated to using coke found that daily doses of buprenorphine led the monkeys to kick the habit completely...
...sure the scientists at the flight center in Moscow have rigged up a model containing another rhesus monkey with a free left arm -- all to see what mischief I'm capable of. They needn't worry. I will do nothing to embarrass the motherland. Besides, I can't leave my seat. I cannot reach any levers. Nor can I leave my chamber to visit the fish and the mice on board for experiments. What this biosatellite needs is some of your perestroika -- you know, restructuring. Space flight might then be more fun than a barrel of monkeys. Sincerely yours, Yerosha
...into the brain and damaged the same area affected by Parkinson's disease. No other substance is known to do that. Last April Dr. Irwin Kopin of the National Institute of Mental Health, co-author of the journal article, announced that he had used MPTP to induce Parkinsonism in rhesus monkeys. The work of these two men suggests that the previously unexplained symptoms of Parkinson's might result from exposure to MPTP, and thus that the disease itself may be caused by environmental factors...
Since then, Upjohn has challenged the validity of its own tests. According to company scientists and a number of outside experts, both beagles and rhesus monkeys are highly sensitive to progesterone and are more likely than humans to develop cancer in response to it. Depo-Provera partisans further claim that there has been no increase in the rate of cancer among women taking the drug in countries where it is approved. Says Gynecologist Elizabeth Connell of Atlanta's Emory University: "It appears to be as safe or perhaps safer than oral contraceptives or intrauterine devices...