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...have to put up with acid rain from Buffalo, Harvard professors who can't handle it when we spell "colour" as it should be in the Queen's English, Bob and Doug jokes, my Gov professor who suggested invading Canada, mockery if our sentences should trail off with a tell-tale...

Author: By Gary J. Bass, | Title: Oh, Canada, My Home and Wacky Land | 11/21/1991 | See Source »

...read this, hundreds of tiny Pharaoh ants are haplessly wandering onto index cards smeared with peanut butter. Little do they know, it is not the same Skippy Louie's sells on the corner. This stuff means business and it's laced with boric acid...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Anti-Ant PB&J | 11/20/1991 | See Source »

THIS IS HOW it works. After a hard day on the job, the worker ants fork over the acid they collected in the peanut butter to the queen ant. The resulting stuffed up intestinal tract leads her to a cruel fate. Without a queen, the colony quickly succumbs to disorganization and death...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Anti-Ant PB&J | 11/20/1991 | See Source »

Still, some complain that peanut butter is a bad choice. Bleary-eyed students waking up five minutes before class tell of moments of horror, frozen in doubt whether they are about to eat an acid-laced PB&J or the real thing...

Author: By Allan S. Galper, | Title: Anti-Ant PB&J | 11/20/1991 | See Source »

Beginning this week, each entry-way tutor is receiving a large supply of the boric acid mixture to distribute to students...

Author: By Brian D. Ellison, | Title: Dunster Prepares To Battle Ant Menace | 11/14/1991 | See Source »

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