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...friend tells Forman of a recurring nightmare: 26 wild dogs gallop through a town and stop to howl menacingly at the man's window. He explains that when Israeli soldiers neared a Lebanese town, dogs would bark at them alerting the locals to invaders, so his job was to shoot the dogs. Forman gets to wondering what experiences of war he may have repressed, and this leads him to interview other veterans of his brigade. The movie was first shot as a regular video, then stylized (by Yoni Goodman) into its current form, using three forms of animation: Flash...
...MARYA HORNBACHER: My parents say that even as a very, very little kid, the way that I acted was dramatically different from other little kids. My own awareness that something was wrong with me was also very, very early. I was aware that I was pretty wild, that I couldn't calm myself, that I had dramatic shifts in moods and thought patterns. I always felt a little crazy. As I got older, I started having real problems in school. I was getting in trouble a lot. I was developing an eating disorder and some substance abuse problems...
...position, on the basis of one individual, to say we know what's going on," he says. "It's too early to unfurl the 'mission accomplished' banner." If Cedric or any of the Special Six do prove resistant, they could be bred back into the wild and into captive populations, improving the species' immunological fitness...
...experienced new predator could do. Cordoning off peninsulas would also be expensive to maintain and hard to patrol. "Fencing out a disease is much harder than fencing out a predator," says Hamish McCallum. But like others, he worries about relying on captive devils, which will inevitably lose some wild traits: "I wouldn't want all my eggs in that basket...
They are almost as different from one another as they are from their predecessors. Díaz, Lahiri's fellow Pulitzer winner, writes wild, slangy, funny prose laced with Dominican Spanish and Star Trek references. His determination to entertain is almost vaudevillian. Lahiri's stories are grave and quiet and slow, in the 19th century manner. They don't bribe you with humor or plot twists or flashy language; they extract a steep up-front investment of time from the reader before they return their hard, dense nuggets of truth. It's difficult to quote from her stories: they refuse...