Ones that got away - November 19, 2008
“I’m the only person in the world to ever be bitten by a pygmy tarsier.”
Sharon Gursky-Doyen, Texas A&M University professor of anthropology, was one of a team that found the first living pygmy tarsiers seen in 80 years (Reuters).
“The epidemic is starting to generalize.”
Li Dongliang, a district director of the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing, warns that AIDS in China is spreading into the mainstream of society (WSJ).
“There are some scars that women do seem to find appealing.”
Robert Burriss, a psychologist at the University of Liverpool, found men with facial scars were 5.7 percentage points higher in ‘appeal ratings’ than their smooth-skinned equivalents (Guardian).
“Debby was a great bear. She acted like a grumpy old bear a lot of times. It was great. She had a lot of life in her, a lot of feistiness.”
Jos Gatien, senior bear keeper at Winnipeg's Assiniboine Park Zoo, remembers the world’s oldest polar bear, who died this week (The Canadian Press).
