Word: bug
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...linked to ulcers and stomach cancer. The researchers do not yet know whether a low vitamin level is the cause or the effect of the H. pylori infection. But even if it is the latter, the study's authors believe it prudent for people who test positive for the bug to increase their vitamin C intake...
...Love Truck Volkswagen's assembly plant in Puebla, Mexico, is cranking out 3,000 special-edition old-style Beetles. But when the last one comes off the factory floor on July 30, the Bug's amazing 70-year era will officially end. Chief executive Bernd Pischetsrieder, however, has been too busy trying to engineer the €90 billion company's next era to get choked up over the passing of this...
...issue, however, is not whether Ben flew the kite, which most scholars agree he did, but how significant his Philadelphia experiment was. In fact, many of his scientific breakthroughs were of great import--and he had a selfless urge to share his new knowledge. When Franklin caught the electricity bug in his 40s, "electrick fire" was a playful if puzzling entertainment. His experiments led him to startlingly modern conclusions. The "fire," he said, is a single "fluid," not the dual "vitreous" and "resinous" electricities postulated by European savants. It exists in two states: plus and minus (terms he coined, along...
...differences in public. For DeLay, a former exterminator from Houston, Bush is a Republican born of privilege and more representative of his party's country-club wing, despite his Midland, Texas, roots and frequent trips to his Crawford ranch. Explaining himself, DeLay simply says, "I'm just a bug man." --By John F. Dickerson and Michael Weisskopf
...defiance is to drive off a cliff to their deaths. Actresses do show up in the car-chase genre, but they are essentially decals, irrelevant to the movies' obsessions. (The only genuinely sexual moment in 2F2F is when two new cars are unveiled for Walker and Tyrese. Their eyes bug out as if Britney and Halle had just stripped for them.) Car-movie heroes are slaves of auto eroticism, guys playing with their stick shifts. Behind the wheel, man is again the primal hunter, pursuing the woolly mammoth 50 yards ahead, fulfilling his destiny...