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...spent years in Suriname, studying spider monkeys in their arboreal home. Often he survived on fruit gnawed by monkeys and then tossed away. "I was quite hungry," he recalls. "Spider monkeys are very economical eaters." On the strength of doctoral research into tropical ecology, Van Roosmalen in 1987 got a scientific post in Manaus with the Brazilian government. He is a leading advocate of a 1996 environmental-protection law that enables Brazilian non-government organizations to buy rain-forest tracts for eco-tourism and research...
...This has taken longer than of us anticipated. It's a darn spider web and if you hit it at any one place, it bounces," he said...
...Move over Spider-Man, there are new comic book stars in town: The Backstreet Boys. The books, which will feature the hip-swiveling five with super powers and capes, will be sold online and at concerts...
...good, evil was evil, and neither was very self-aware. But Lee conceptualized characters, like the Hulk and the Thing, who were literally uncomfortable in their own skins, reluctant superheroes who didn't always feel or act nobly. For his creations, being a superhero was a job; one Spider-Man found Spidey trying unsuccessfully to cash a check in his name (no id). With humor and an ear for the vernacular ("It's clobberin' time!"), Lee put the human in superhuman...
DIED. GIL KANE, 73, self-taught comic-book artist whose half-century career included reviving Green Lantern in the late 1950s and the Atom soon after, and reinterpreting other great superheroes, from Spider-Man and the Hulk to Captain America and Conan the Barbarian; of cancer; in Miami...