The 21-year-old Sydney man apparently contracted a rat lungworm parasite from the slugs, which pick it up from rodent droppings.
Circumcision is believed to protect heterosexual men because the foreskin has many Langerhans cells, which pick up viruses and "present" them to the immune system — which H.I.V. attacks.
For any twitcher, a pair of binoculars are a must, and bat detectors – which pick up on ultrasonic cries – can be purchased over the internet.
Cementing the sense of apartness are the new green cabs, which pick up street hails in the outer boroughs — as well as in northern Manhattan.
The well-thumbed King James version of the Bible has proved intriguing because of the placement of three original bookmarks which pick out "chapters on judgement and damnation".
That makes their passage easy to detect using banks of so-called drift tubes, which pick up the electrical signal generated by the ions.
As in Frege's system, the basic elements consist of referring expressions, or "logically proper" names, which pick out the simplest parts of states of affairs.
Two exceptions are Maine and Nebraska, which pick two of their electors by statewide popular vote and the remainder by the popular vote in each Congressional district.
