Word: simianity
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...They give monkeys simian AIDS and try to cure that, but it's not the same. Chimpanzees can live with it and don't display the mass wasting of the body," Baer said...
...back to doing what comes naturally. After Notting Hill comes Mickey Blue Eyes, out in August from Simian Films, the production company he and his girlfriend Elizabeth Hurley formed in 1995. In this light comedy, produced by Hurley, he plays an art auctioneer who happens to fall in love with a New York mobster's daughter (Jeanne Tripplehorn). The film allowed Grant and Hurley, in the name of research, to hang out with genuine Mob types in Brooklyn. "They really adored Elizabeth," says Grant. "They say, 'My name's Uncle Mikey, if there's anything...
...which causes a milder form of AIDS found largely in western Africa. But the source of HIV-1, the dominant cause of the AIDS pandemic, has remained elusive to virus hunters like Alabama's Dr. Beatrice Hahn. Long on the trail of links between HIV and kindred simian viruses, she jumped at the chance to examine old tissue samples (stored, as it turns out, in a freezer at the National Cancer Institute) from the only chimp in the Air Force colony to have tested positive...
...including Feng Gao, husband George Shaw and Paul Sharp, set about amplifying, sequencing and analyzing Marilyn's virus. Except in the rarest cases, chimps like the sooty mangabeys never show AIDS-like symptoms. Even so, when the researchers compared the viral DNA with the three known types of SIV (simian immunodeficiency virus), they found it had a substantially different genetic makeup. And when they compared Marilyn's genetic makeup with that of other chimps, they determined that she belonged to a different subspecies than the chimps that harbor the other SIV strains; those kindred chimps live farther east...
Rumor has it that CityStep finally updated their unchoreographed dining hall antic. Say goodbye to the simian Congo Line--oh! ah! CityStepCityStepCityStep. A new era of stomping, clapping and booty shaking promotion has arrived and not a moment too soon. Everyone agrees that tonight's fete is doomed to dorkdom with only push-over freshmen and D-list upperclassmen planning on slapping on garish, recycled prom gear. Don't get seduced by the moonlight...