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...record by spending a month in a cage with more than 2,000 scorpions, handily beating the old mark of zero days JEAN-YVES EMPEREUR Archaeologist wins apology from Tomb Raider gamemaker for using his name. This puts the kibosh on our new PC game: Super Jean-Yves EUROPEAN VERMIN New study says that an Ebola-like virus, not rats, caused the Black Plague. Rats, it turns out, were actually responsible for the Renaissance Losers WILT CHAMBERLAIN Late basketball star's $4.3 million "luxury love nest," including water-bed floor, still unsold. Come on, over 20,000 women...
...disease offers a more credible instrument of decline. He suspects that some disease-causing microbe--one to which New World organisms lacked resistance--tagged along with the Stone Age hunters who first ventured into the New World. Once again this pathogen (which could have been carried by dogs or vermin) need not have killed every single animal to have set the wheels of extinction in motion. During the late 19th century in Africa, for example, native antelope, wildebeests and other ungulates were decimated by rinderpest, a disease spread by imported cattle...
...vermin therefore bow, kowtow, and otherwise grovel, and stretch our necks beneath the axblade of your wrath...
During 13 episodes, the 16 contestants marooned on the island of Pulau Tiga will vote to remove members until the last one wins a million bucks. What makes this fascinatingly different from MTV's The Real World--besides the vermin and the cash--is that although Survivor cast all ages, only three of the 16 were outside the 18-to-49 demo. It was like a dotcom company: the seniors were demographic and cultural outsiders. As the hotties showed off their abs and pierced nipples, ex-Navy SEAL Rudy Boesch, 72, groused about the kids who wouldn't accept military...
Watching Fido lounge by the radiator or snowball arrogantly circle her designer litter box, it's hard to believe that dogs and cats were originally domesticated for practical purposes (dogs hunted; cats chased vermin away). While no one can deny the charms of a good animal companion, wouldn't it be nice if there were a furry friend that didn't take its place in the American household for granted? A pet that, frankly, reflected better on its modern mover-shaker owners? There is hope. "I think ferrets could be the pets of the future," says Mary Shefferman, editor...