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Dreaming: Shirley Strum says that there came a time when the baboons spoke to her in English. They came to her in her dreams and asked for her help. For twelve years Strum, an anthropologist from California, had been studying a baboon troop at a ranch called Kekopey, near Gilgil. Then the ranch was turned into an agricultural collective, and the new farmers menaced the baboons and tried to kill them...
...baboons were Strum's friends. She had given all of them names, and she sat among them every day. They were accustomed to her and accepted her. She came among them like a ghostly premonition of their evolutionary future, a benevolent spirit out of the time warp, another civilization. She came from space. She sat among them holding her clipboard, and made silent notes...
...Strum understood the dangers of anthropomorphism, of coming to love the animals too much and to hate the people endangering them. Strum, the least violent of creatures, said that if she had had a gun, she might have shot the farmers who were threatening her baboons. Now, in Shirley Strum's dreams, the baboons asked her for help, and she searched for a ranch that would accept them. The ranchers mostly thought she was insane. Baboons raid crops. Importing baboons to a ranch made as much sense as transplanting cockroaches to a New York City apartment. But at last Strum...
...hard labor takes place at the drawing board overlooking Union Bay, where he sits and stares, and stares and sits, until the ideas flow. "A strange juxtaposing of things takes place that I don't understand," says Larson. "It just happens." When it is not happening, he stops to strum his guitar; sometimes he works until 3 a.m. to meet a deadline...
...Result: many consumers, suffering from single- digit shock, have started moving their IRA accounts to Wall Street in search of better yields. IRAs invested in stocks typically earned a 26% return last year. "We're clobbering the banks. It looks like the tables have turned," boasts Gary Strum, first vice president in charge of pension services for E.F. Hutton. Thrift institutions in particular have suffered a drain. Their share of IRAs has fallen from 54% in 1982 to 28% today...