“After we pull our land rover off the track to watch a pair of leopards, I ask my two safari guides what animal they’d be most excited to see. I’m thinking elephants, lions, rhinos — the charismatic megafauna that attract tourists from across the world. Their answer: aardvarks and porcupines…” — from “kenya’s blackboard jungle” [...]
deep in the interior of africa in the dense jungles of cameroon, where scientists have determined that HIV originated, jumping from chimps to humans possibly more than a century ago, the Global Viral Forecast team of Dr. Nathan Wolfe is searching for the newest viral threats with the hope of stopping the next global disease [...]
22:17:20 E.A.T. november 04, 2008 – club obama! the terrace restaurant at the kisumu imperial hotel 01:15am. swatting the mosquitos, clapping them really. alone, in a dirty banquet room, the tables dressed in maroon fatigues, the chairs with those white slip cover things look like klansmen or maybe something out of fantasia. lots of bad [...]
