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...best guess is that Ebola resides in a small, forest-dwelling animal, possibly a rodent. Insects such as mosquitoes, abundant in the rainy season, could transfer the blood-borne pathogen to chimps--or to humans. But, cautions Heymann, that's no more than speculation. "We're still in the dark," he says. Meanwhile, officials in Gabon are playing it safe. Last week they warned villagers not to touch dead animals found in the forest or kill any that are "behaving strangely." Until researchers know what they're dealing with, that's probably prudent. As the villagers of Mayibout now know...
...heart never made it to the screen. This book is a reverie on an art form whose possibilities were still being explored. The stars are not the fabled animators but the conceptual artists whose work they drew on. Here is Mickey way back when he was a rodent outlaw; drenching pastels of fairyland by Sylvia Holland; a surreal grand piano with a fierce trail of tyrannical music hovering above it--by an unknown artist. These pictures really move...
...fact, this rodent's fealty has earned it lasting infamy. To follow someone or something unquestioningly is to behave like a lemming marching en masse to its own death...
...ever a creature seemed conjured by the forces of darkness, it is the bat. With webbed wings and feral face, the furry little beast appears to be the offspring of some monstrous union of bird and rodent. Over the years, legend has had it that bats are filthy and nasty (they feed on human blood) and that they possess spooky supernatural powers (they shift shape from bat to man). No wonder they have been a motif of countless horror tales and films...
...other Trump news: Harry and Leona Helmsley are suing the Donald for $100 million. The Helmsleys, who lease the Empire State Building from Trump and his Japanese partners, say a lawsuit that Trump filed in February claiming the Helmsleys had mismanaged the landmark (key phrase: "rodent infestation") was an attempt to drive down rental rates and scare off tenants...