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...about creating my own virus, the first created by someone who is not the manufacturer of antivirus software. By ?creating,? I mean writing about it and hoping a reader makes it for me. The Stein Virus Variant A will find Web users over 60 and e-mail them my column every week. Stein Virus Variant B will infiltrate the AOL home page and jam it with a big story about what Erik Estrada is up to now. You can imagine how disheartened I was to discover that that?s exactly what is already on the AOL home page...
...basis of these minor but distinctive differences, Haile-Selassie decided to classify the new human ancestor as a subspecies, or variant, of ramidus and has given it the name Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba. (The name is derived from the local Afar language. Ardi means ground or floor; ramid means root; and kadabba means basal family ancestor. In accordance with the sometimes bizarre nomenclature of science, the younger creature now gets renamed Ardipithecus ramidus ramidus...
Byron has devoted albums to the klezmer music of the eastern European Jews, to a variant Afro-Cuban sound he describes as "pan-Caribbean" and to a hybrid funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from...
...Byron has devoted albums to the klezmer music of the eastern European Jews, to a variant Afro-Cuban sound he describes as "pan-Caribbean" and to a hybrid funk/hip-hop adventure with Biz Markie. His finest album may be 1996's Bug Music, a thrilling exploration of the jumpy, angular and surprisingly substantive music written for, among other things, 1940s cartoons. On his most recent disc, last year's A Fine Line, he brought together works by Stephen Sondheim, Ornette Coleman, Roy Orbison, Stevie Wonder and Giacomo Puccini. He was hoping to show, he wrote, "that a song untethered from...
...last week zeroed in on Burnside farm, a pig-fattening facility in Northumberland, in the north of England. Vets believe pigs at the unit may have been fed leftovers from local school lunches that possibly contained bits of contaminated meat. The current virus, experts say, is the pan-Asian variant of the "O" type of foot-and-mouth, a highly infectious strain, which could have entered Britain through illegally imported meat. Once the virus got into the pig swill at Burnside, it was too late. A group of pigs from the farm ended up at a slaughterhouse in Essex, where...