Volume 46, Number 19 · December 2, 1999
Something Happened
By Helen Epstein
The River: A Journey to the Source of HIV and AIDS
by Edward Hooper
Little, Brown, 1070 pp., $35.00
In the movie version of H.G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau, a shipwrecked passenger is fished out of the sea by a cargo ship on its way to deliver crates of apes, lions, and other wild animals to a reclusive and mysterious scientist on an island in the South Pacific. At one point the passenger asks a member of the ship's crew, 'Hey, what is all this mystery about Moreau and his island?' 'I don't know,' says the sailor. 'If I did know, maybe I'd want to forget.'
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