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| af72f36 | Table 2 List of Initiatives: What do I want to accomplish? (State the end result or outcome) When do I want to accomplish it? (Be as specific as you can) Why do I think it is important? (State the difference that you believe it will it make) 1. 2. 3. | Jeffrey D. Ford | ||
| 46e8deb | Table 3 For each Initiative: Who needs to participate? (List all individuals and teams) Where will resources come from? How might the work get done? 1. 2. 3. | Jeffrey D. Ford | ||
| 4e4f108 | This was a new type of Klan. They were still race haters, but they sold themselves to the populace on the platform of law and order. Imagine. There weren't enough colored people out there on the island for them to get that worked up about, so they kind of transferred their energy into hating the Catholics, the Jews, the immigrants. They were down on what they considered the dissolution of the white race by all of the foreigners coming into .. | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| d2630c9 | Americans so dearly love to be fooled. --Charles Baudelaire | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| 6c2b756 | Parents: so essential, yet sometimes like something you've stepped in and cannot get off your shoe. What else is there but to love them? | parents | Jeffrey Ford | |
| eebb6a3 | No man is above justice," George Mason preached at the Constitutional Convention in 1787. That sentiment still rings true, yet competes with the political reality offered by then-representative Gerald Ford, who quipped in 1970 that "an impeachable offense is whatever a majority of the House of Representatives considers it to be at a given moment in history." | Jeffrey A. Engel | ||
| c8dc83b | As we followed him down a hall to a back bedroom, he told us that he owned the house. "Unfortunately, it's not haunted," he said." | Jeffrey Ford | ||
| 23f3a28 | We know that ecological isolation--either by seawater or by other sorts of delimitation--correlates strongly with risk of extinction | David Quammen | ||
| f95d097 | He succeeded in staying out of exactly and only those forms of postadolescent trouble that were not winked at, sating himself with those that were. | David Quammen | ||
| 8bc5472 | not just Machupo but also Marburg (1967), Lassa (1969), Ebola (1976, with Karl Johnson again prominently involved), HIV-1 (inferred in 1981, first isolated in 1983), HIV-2 (1986), Sin Nombre (1993), Hendra (1994), avian flu (1997), Nipah (1998), West Nile (1999), SARS (2003), and the much feared but anticlimactic swine flu of 2009. | David Quammen | ||
| b3fd591 | aboard: | David Quammen | ||
| 8be733b | Without explaining what's on my mind, I ask Nafus and Schreiner: Have they seen any recent invasions by exotic arthropods, or any dramatic population outbreaks among native ones? I inquire about arthropods rather than insects because it's a broader category, inclusive also of such charming non-insect invertebrates as ticks, centipedes, millipedes, and spiders. Asking a professional entomologist about arthropods (and not about, say, bugs) is.. | David Quammen | ||
| 191d14c | weighing only five grams (about the same as two dimes), | David Quammen | ||
| 5fcb22a | Acarologists (tick biologists) | David Quammen | ||
| 981b7ba | Viruses face four basic challenges: how to get from one host to another, how to penetrate a cell within that host, how to commandeer the cell's equipment and resources for producing multiple copies of itself, and how to get back out--out of the cell, out of the host, on to the next. A | David Quammen | ||
| 7df3790 | The protein wrap is known as a capsid. The | David Quammen | ||
| 3c0abfe | Penicillin works by preventing bacteria from building their cell walls. So do its synthetic alternatives, such as amoxicillin. Tetracycline works by interfering with the internal metabolic processes by which bacteria manufacture new proteins for cell growth and replication. | David Quammen | ||
| 7f0f553 | The basic point is so important I'll repeat it: RNA viruses mutate profligately. | David Quammen | ||
| 62d1349 | ideas--and where facts were scarce, directive questions. Other | David Quammen | ||
| 57df76c | Most bacteriologists were trained as medical men--Burnet himself had been, before going into bacteriological research--and "their interest in general biological problems was very limited." They cared about curing and preventing diseases, which was well and good; less so about pondering infection as a biological phenomenon, a relationship between creatures, equal in fundamental importance to such other relationships as predation, competition.. | David Quammen | ||
| 2230db1 | A plate of Ebola virions mixed with Hendra virions would resemble capellini in a light sauce of capers. | David Quammen | ||
| 50a8569 | equatorial Africa? Could it have arrived there in one soaring leap, leaving no traces in between? From southwestern Sudan to Manila is almost seven thousand miles as the bat flies. But no bat can fly that far without roosting. Are ebolaviruses more broadly distributed than we suspect? Should scientists start looking for them in India, Thailand, and Vietnam? Or did Reston virus get to the Philippines the same way Tai Forest virus got to Swit.. | David Quammen | ||
| 59e2f5a | the good news about Reston virus, derived both from the 1989 US scare and from retrospective research on Luzon, is that it doesn't seem to cause illness in humans, only in monkeys. The bad news is that no one understands why. Apart | David Quammen | ||
| e783a05 | Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare. | David Quammen | ||
| 6521848 | Herpes B is a very rare infection in humans but a nasty one, with a case fatality rate of almost 70 percent among those few dozen people infected during the twentieth century (before recent breakthroughs in antiviral pharmaceutics) and almost 50 percent even since then. When | David Quammen | ||
| 68c638a | Britain's Advisory Committee on Dangerous Pathogens had lately reclassified herpes B into biohazard level 4, placing it in the elite company of Ebola, Marburg, and the virus that causes Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever. National | David Quammen | ||
| 9e72811 | Trophic cascades, as defined by Diamond in his "Rosetta Stone" paper, are the secondary effects that can ramify from level to level in consequence of a single extinction." | David Quammen | ||
| 6b2a4b2 | convincing biologic evidence exists for symptomatic chronic B. burgdorferi infection in patients after recommended treatment regimens for Lyme disease. | David Quammen | ||
| f250a5a | No convincing biologic evidence exists for symptomatic chronic B. burgdorferi infection in patients after recommended treatment regimens for Lyme disease. | David Quammen | ||
| 433733b | It worries the flu scientists because they know that H5N1 influenza is (1) extremely virulent in people, with a high lethality though a relatively low number of cases, and yet (2) poorly transmissible, so far, from human to human. It'll kill you if you catch it, very likely, but you're unlikely to catch it except | David Quammen | ||
| ea06d72 | RNA viruses because I already had that list in my mind: Hendra and Nipah, Ebola and Marburg, West Nile, Machupo, Junin, the influenzas, the hantas, dengue and yellow fever, rabies and its cousins, chikungunya, SARS-CoV, and Lassa, not to mention HIV-1 and HIV-2. All of them carry their genomes as RNA. The | David Quammen | ||
| b4b3656 | RNA viruses are limited to small genomes because their mutation rates are so high, and their mutation rates are so high because they're limited to small genomes. In fact, there's a fancy name for that bind: Eigen's paradox. Manfred Eigen is a German chemist, a Nobel winner, who has studied the chemical reactions that yield self-organization of longer molecules, a process that might lead to life. His paradox describes a size limit for such s.. | David Quammen | ||
| 39cc310 | And hopefully nothing will happen." But of course, as she well knew, something always does happen. It's just a question of what and when." | David Quammen | ||
| cd4b25e | Among the most important things to remember about evolution--and about its primary mechanism, natural selection, as limned by Darwin and his successors--is that it doesn't have purposes. It only has results. To | David Quammen | ||
| 7b3be4b | Saying no to the inevitable is one of the few precious ways our own species redeems itself from oblivion- or at least tries to. | David Quammen | ||
| 9ac03ae | The order Chiroptera (the "hand-wing" creatures) encompasses 1,116 species, which amounts to 25 percent of all the recognized species of mammals. To say again: One in every four species of mammal is a bat. Such" | David Quammen | ||
| fb9e2cb | SIR model, representing a flow of individuals, during the course of an outbreak, through those three classes I mentioned earlier: from susceptible (S) to infected (I) to recovered (R). Anderson | David Quammen | ||
| 2fa12dc | know that walking into a small woodlot," he wrote, "is riskier than walking into a nearby large, extensive forest." | David Quammen | ||
| 7b76817 | Their result was a model-generated prediction: Given this rate of transmission, given that rate of recovery, given those unrelated mortalities, then . . . an intermediate grade of virulence should come to predominate. Son of a gun, it matched what had happened. | David Quammen | ||
| 44e561f | One animal died and, after it tested positive for Reston virus, forty-nine others housed in the same room were "euthanized" as a precaution. (Most of those, tested posthumously, were negative.) Ten employees who had helped unload and handle the monkeys were also screened for infection, and they also tested negative, but none of them were euthanized." | David Quammen | ||
| deed207 | Appearances have enormous importance, Mr. Kessler. The creation and maintenance of appearances. Appearances govern. | David Quammen | ||
| c148e18 | Two men, on opposite sides of the world, had made the same great discovery at the same time. | David Quammen | ||
| bf0960c | What are they called? Sprackles, shakums, edible sequins, glossy sugar deedeebobs, I don't know. Instead of sprinkling them on a cookie, I sprinkle them on Angel de la Guarda. | David Quammen | ||
| c4d8267 | But here's a bit of spoilsport historical reality: It wasn't the finches that inspired Darwin, it was the Mockingbirds. | David Quammen |