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• "I've been here for 15 years and we haven't had anything like this happen," Zoo Boise Director Steve Burns said. "It's unfortunate that we have to let kids know that something like this happens. Monkeys are always among the most favorite animals here."
• Patas monkeys, often called the military monkey, have reddish-brown fur with grey chin whiskers and distinctive white moustaches. They are widely distributed across central Africa south of the Sahara Desert and can live more than 20 years in captivity.
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Notre Dame and Alabama rise after a night of BCS chaos
• Coming into Saturday, Oregon and Kansas State had the inside track to college football's national championship and the Southeastern Conference's run of six straight BCS titles was in jeopardy.
• Then No. 2 K-State got thumped 52-24 by unranked Baylor and top-ranked Oregon fell in overtime to No. 14 Stanford, 17-14.
• Now the SEC is alive and well.
• And how's this for a possible national title game: Alabama vs. Notre Dame.
• A week after Alabama lost to Texas A&M, more upsets re-opened door for the fourth-ranked Crimson Tide, which shut out lower-division Western Carolina 49-0 on Saturday.
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Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Sunday, Nov. 18, the 323rd day of 2012. There are 43 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On Nov. 18, 1942, "The Skin of Our Teeth," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning allegory about the history of humankind, opened on Broadway.
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• On this date:
• In 1865, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain was first published under the title "Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog" in the New York Saturday Press.
• In 1883, the United States and Canada adopted a system of Standard Time zones.
• In 1886, the 21st president of the United States, Chester A. Arthur, died in New (Continued on page 29)
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