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...never are these chumps again, and if you do, they won't know that you used the word "simian" to describe them--or so you might think. In actual fact, this is the wrong way to approach the evaluation process. At the risk of dampening some of the fun, I'll explain...
...that can prevent infection altogether. And that's what makes the Sydney virus so promising--and so controversial. Could HIV itself, stripped of nef and adjacent sections of genetic material, provide the basis for such a vaccine, as Deacon and his colleagues cautiously suggest? Ongoing work on SIV, the simian immunodeficiency virus that causes an AIDS-like illness in monkeys, indicates that this might be less farfetched than it sounds. Ronald Desrosiers at the New England Regional Primate Research Center has demonstrated that when the nef gene is removed from SIV, the virus no longer has the power to make...
...cross between the Odyssey and the Arabian Nights. Or perhaps as a shaggy-dog story about a monkey: Douglas Hara, playing the monkey spirit, often steals the show. He's a cartwheeling, somersaulting, scaffold-climbing presence who occasionally releases, in his rare moments of repose, a pleasant simian cooing. The production abounds in lovely visual effects. Blending silks and spotlights, dragons and conveyor belts, Zimmerman serves up the Court of the Jade Emperor, a courier from Buddha, a ghost-king. There are slow stretches-much of the burlesque falls flat-but the overall effect is dazzling. You leave with your...
Aside from the compelling simian endorsement, the council made a few other week attempts at propaganda. Most notable was the strategically timed doordrop of the sporadic council Courier. Published with our term bill money, the council's publicity rag abandoned all pretense of neutrality, urging a "Yes" vote from all comers. If the council leadership has the cheek to use our term-bill money to persuade us to deliver more lucre into their coffers, then we a Dartboard have something to say to them: Congratulations! You have a promising future in politics...
...notion of Neanderthal ancestors, Boule concluded that a Neanderthal had prehensile feet, could not fully extend his legs, and thrust his head awkwardly forward because his spine prevented him from standing upright. In his scientific papers, Boule described the "brutish appearance of this muscular and clumsy body." This almost simian image persisted largely unchallenged for decades. Indeed, vestiges of it remain today in such manifestations as textbook illustrations, the Alley Oop cartoon strip, and in the pejorative use of "Neanderthal...