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Alpert and Wilson devised a formula of peanut butter and boric acid which is designed to attract ants, Liem said. Operation DEAD calls for the formula to be spread over cards and left around every room in the house...

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

According to Liem, the boric acid is not recommended for human consumption but is perfectly safe...

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

...surface of Venus has never seemed very hospitable. Temperatures hover around 470 degrees C (900 degrees F), the result of a runaway greenhouse effect, and the pressure of its atmosphere, thick with carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, is some 90 times that of Earth's. Lead would flow like water on Venus, and water cannot have existed in liquid form for perhaps a billion years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Big Blowup -- on Venus | 11/11/1991 | See Source »

...Picasso on acid--as impressionistic as toilet paper could ever get," said resident Francisco A. Rivera...

Author: By Jenna B. Mcneill, | Title: New Look for Matthews South | 11/7/1991 | See Source »

...then I noticed something on TV for the first time: amid the reporters covering the event were two whom I recognized as members of the foreign press corps, both known for their jaundiced eye and acid wit. My heart sank. It suddenly occurred to me that having spent days watching our politicians make prime-time fools of themselves, we Americans were soon going to have to listen to Europeans lecture us on how immature and naive we are. We heard it during Watergate, and we'd hear it again now: Grow up, America! Start behaving like a superpower instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Abroad | 10/28/1991 | See Source »

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