On the latter show, former Playboy Playmate Carrie Westcott said she'd never met a man who could match her sexual drive.

'Make your mind easy,' Ratsey said; 'I have dug too often in this graveyard for any to wonder if they see me with a spade.'

The surreal Being John Malkovich, for instance, was pretty far down the highest-grossing list, but it was a succès d'estime (it showed up on most critics' lists of the year's best movies), as was the stylish and often grisly (far more violent than the average animated movie) Japanise animated production, Princess Monoke.

As in much of biology, the most satisfying truths in ecology derive from manipulative experimentation. Tinker with nature and quantify how it responds.