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Since January 1993, eight rabid reccoons and one rabid skunk have been caught by Cambridge authorities Mark McCabe, director of the Cambridge Animal Commission, estimated that there are between 50 and 70 sick raccoons in the area...
...Curleys, for example, are a family of eight, all crammed into a tiny house. Here there's no room for anything but straight shooting, whether the subject is sex, using the bathroom or what's playing on the telly. The mother, Kay (Ruth McCabe), is patient, taciturn and sweet. When the question of contraception arises, she recalls the best she ever knew: the gift of a coat from her husband Dessie (Colm Meaney), which prevented him from taking her out in the fields where it might get dirty...
...persistence of a half-heard spell. But even his eccentricity is so wide- ranging, so continually renewing and surprising, that it probably isn't fair to call it typical. Anyone who expects the morose, slightly spacy voluptuary who sang, most famously, on the sound track of Robert Altman's McCabe and Mrs. Miller -- the Cohen who sounded like Villon with frostbite -- is in for a mighty shock encountering The Future...
...disease has also appeared in a cat and a skunk. McCabe said that bats are also good carriers, but the squirrels that swarm in Harvard Yard are fairly safe...
...McCabe said Cambridge's three officers should be able to handle the threat...