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Lake remains undaunted. FBI agents come and go. In fact, a key member of the FBI's Washington anthrax team--Arthur Eberhart, special agent in charge--retired last summer. But Lake soldiers on. First thing each morning he's back at his computer scouring the Internet for fresh leads. He vows not to quit until the mystery is solved. And then, maybe, he will get back to his screenplay. --With reporting by Andrea Dorfman/New York and Elaine Shannon/Washington
...package?specifically, the Aedes aegypti mosquito, whose bite is the main way the virus can spread. Aedes aegypti are right at home in tropical cities rife with stagnant water and human targets. "Once a dengue epidemic is under way, it's very difficult to stop it," says Dr. Ray Arthur, a virologist for the who. No vaccine exists...
...With a vaccine not exactly at the front of drug companies' R.-and-D. line, dengue prevention comes down to mosquito prevention. "If you control the mosquito, you control the spread," says Arthur. Unlike the malarial mosquito and vampires, the Aedes aegypti only bites during the day. Keep your home free of potential mosquito-breeding grounds by clearing out any stagnant-water containers such as used tires. Once confined to the tropics, dengue looks to be spreading to new areas in Asia, as the recent Hong Kong outbreak shows. The best we can do is not put out the welcome...
...Schuster book titled Atlantis Rising: The True Story of a Submerged Land, Yesterday and Today. I talked to scientists from the recently deceased paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould to the great naturalist Bil Gilbert. I investigated the old hoo-hah espoused by such as Ignatius Donnelly, Jules V erne and Arthur Conan Doyle, and looked into the sounder theories of bygone thinkers such as Rachel Carson and J.V. Luce. I developed a Deep Throat source at the venerable Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute on Cape Cod in Massachusetts and, frankly, I myself got in a bit too deep...
Competing in the ECAC championships at the USTA National Tennis Center in New York, under the shadow of Arthur Ashe stadium, Chu blazed through his singles matches in the first three rounds before winning the clinching match against Virginia Tech in the finals yesterday morning...