Word: bug
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BEATING DEET While cats may be wild about catnip, mosquitoes seem to hate it. Nepetalactone, its fragrant essential oil, turns out to be 10 times as effective as DEET, the chemical in most commercial bug repellents. Two years ago, the same researchers showed that Nepetalactone was repugnant to cockroaches...
...SCOOTER BUG McDonald's The antenna on this bug, recalled in March, easily snaps off and can be swallowed...
...fact, every virus has been a letdown: Melissa; the Love Bug; Michelangelo; BubbleBoy; the Sniffling, Sneezing, Aching, Stuffy-Head, Fever Virus. Even Y2K turned into nothing. Which is good, except that I'm still eating milletloaf every night...
...deal he had just made. House G.O.P. leaders rushed the bill to the floor while it was still being written. Democrats denounced it as an industry bill of rights. "If that plan wasn't written by the insurance companies," says Marion Berry of Arkansas, "I'll eat a bug." Senate Democrats vowed that when it got to the House-Senate conference, the White House-backed HMO measure would die. They were making the same promise on Alaskan drilling. "They've said that before," said a White House official...
...most of those instances, the amount of repellent used was unusual. (In one case, a 3 1/2 year-old girl's body, bedding and pajamas were sprayed each night for two weeks.) And that brings up an important point: children are perhaps most vulnerable to the accidental misapplication of bug spray...