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Wilson is in a good position to know. He has distinguished himself in too many specialties to be called a specialist. He is a research professor at Harvard, a renowned entomologist, a leading environmentalist and a founder of sociobiology, the study of genetically determined behavior. He is also one of the clearest and most dedicated popularizers of science since T.H. Huxley, the 19th century British biologist whose books and lectures brought the new heresies of geology and evolution to Prime Ministers and coal miners alike...
...home remedies as olive oil and vinegar. In Rhode Island, Idaho and Florida, parents are trading tips on smearing their kids' hair with vaseline, steam cleaning the carpets and storing teddy bears in the refrigerator. "It's creating a lot of havoc," says Wayne Kramer, the Nebraska state medical entomologist, who has received 125 calls since the beginning of the school year, many more than usual. "I think it's on the brink of being out of control...
...that is used in the museum for conservation work so that I could check her head for lice. I tried every shampoo on the market. I bagged all her toys. I washed 20 loads of laundry every week. But they would just keep coming back." Says Kramer, the medical entomologist: "It's so frustrating for so many people. We can't really recommend products that are 100% effective...
With the infection rate increasing, Seaman asked for an entomologist to pin down the vector, or carrier, of the disease and its habitat. MSF sent Canadian Judith Schorscher from her base in Paris. She spent six months using fans to suck insects into traps, where they could be dissected and analyzed...
...such big names after only one art-house success? "I had written a script that made agents sit up and pay attention," says the scruffily handsome director, whose flaws do not include false modesty. "I begged him for the part," agrees Stiller, who plays the lead character, a young entomologist who goes off in search of his biological parents. Moore wanted to play against type as a neurotic, sexually aggressive mother. "What I'm hoping," she says, "is that people in the business will consider me for a new type of work...