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...BUFF-HEADED CAPUCHIN HOME Brazil's Atlantic Forest POPULATION fewer than 5,000 --Hunters shoot the adults for meat and capture the younger animals to sell as pets...
Truck drivers, grocery baggers, college students--they're all here, from buff teens to potbellied boomers. They walk in wearing street clothes, step into a storage closet and emerge, in body socks and hoods, as the Samurai, Red Tornado, Black Panther, Golden Lion. Every class is like fright night at the Elks Lodge. "Guy comes in, says his name is Greg, but he wants to be called Power Lord because that's what they called him in school," says Bill Anderson, 43, one of the two former pro wrestlers who run the school. "The guy's maybe...
...great Silicon Valley divide between techies and money people, Omidyar admits, he's a classic technowonk. A computer buff in high school and a computer-science major at Tufts University, he fit all the stereotypes. "I was the typical nerd or geek," he says. "I forget which one is the good one now." After his junior year, he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area for a programming internship and never looked back...
...year ago, in this same space, I wrote a light-hearted piece about being a fire buff. An interlocuter wrote back to The Crimson that I overstated the job's romance and understated the danger. He was right...
...buff, I watched the Associated Press wire Friday night as word of two deaths, and then four more, reached news reporters...