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DIED. HAROLD ("Hal") LIPSET, 78, private eye who famously put a bug in a martini olive; in the town that avidly tracked his gumshoe doings, San Francisco. Founder of the World Association of Detectives, Lipset demonstrated his electrical know-how for a Senate subcommittee in the 1960s with that oft parodied olive. Duly impressed, Washington briefly hired him as a Watergate investigator...
Chubais' claim sounded plausible. Natural resources are not the only things that are being privatized. Corporate security organizations bug phones and provide their bosses with dirt on their enemies, just like the old KGB. Newspapers owned or funded by the new magnates then print the material, just as the Communist Party press did in the past to a disgraced leader, a dissident or an irritating foreigner. Until recently Chubais had seemed an exception to the regime of moral relativity that reigns in Moscow. He could come across as arrogant, aloof and driven. But most people believed he was honest. This...
...cases of food poisoning in the U.S. that cost some 9,000 lives each year. Dubbed "cold pasteurization" by the food industry, the controversy-plagued technology uses powerful gamma rays released by the common medical radioisotope cobalt 60 or streams of high-energy electrons from an accelerator. The bug-zapping power of the process is undisputed. The ionizing radiation, millions of times stronger than ordinary X rays, kills molds, bacteria and small insects by wrecking their DNA, while leaving the exposed food virtually unchanged and radiation free. As a side benefit, it also eliminates the need for fumigants...
...dumb a blockbuster as they come. The premise of the film is to corral a truly mind-boggling number of Aaron Spelling bit players into playing futuristic action heroes fighting giant insects on the planet Klendathu. The movie doesn't skimp on the gunfire or the chomping, stomping Bug Things, which of course are its major selling points...
...read about. He takes people whom the modern world would normally take seriously--John's co-workers at the radio station, for example--and outlines them in 3-word descriptions. John's beer-drinking buddies from back home, however, are punctuated with long and often hysterically funny anecdotes. "Bug lotion has no effect whatsoever on those Florida flies," one old man mentions over beers at the local bar. "A crucifix helps, but you have to hit them really hard with it." The locals become the real people, the characters that readers remember most vividly and care most about...