Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There is plenty to be grateful for in James Cameron's electrifying parable of two righteous single mothers, one an earthling in her mid-80s (after 57 years of floating in hypersleep), the other a mammoth uggy bug. Among these perks is a golden opportunity for Hollywood. It can finally discover in Weaver the stellar creature that Ivan Reitman, her director in Ghostbusters, has already proclaimed her: "the perfect contemporary heroine...
...amendment to the Noise Ordinance, if passed, would require Cambridge residents who own "bug zappers" to shut them off between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. if their neighbors complain about the sound of frying arthropods...
Councillor Alfred Vellucci has a better idea, though. He suggested that "what you need up in your neighborhood is a bug-squisher." He imagines a "bug brigade" that would quietly stomp on pesky fauna at night...
...quick-change artist of the microbe world, a virus that minutely alters its external make-up, dozens of times as fast as the influenza bug. The rapid evolution of the deadly AIDS virus is a source of wonder to scientists. "We have not yet seen two viruses that are identical from two patients," says Dr. William Haseltine, a leading AIDS researcher at Harvard. Where did the deadly germ come from? Did it evolve from a less harmful variety? Last week reports from both sides of the Atlantic offered clues to the origins of the virus that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome...
...Ruiz, 8, frowns before an audiovisual machine. Like many other youngsters, Aaron has had learning problems: his school wanted to put him into special-education classes, but his mother brought him to Sylvan. A teacher shows Aaron flash cards that say HUG, LUG. He misreads the first word as bug, then catches his mistake. When he corrects it and completes the test successfully, the teacher rewards him with four yellow tokens. These can be exchanged at the "Sylvan store," where pupils trade their accumulated tokens for such goodies as Super GoBots, giant sunglasses and even Walkmans...