Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lagniappe, Blount throws in a few dozen original song lyrics, including, "He's in the driver's seat now,/ Beside him sits my wife./ And I'm just a bug on the windshield of life...
...consists of some old bromides with a few new twists. In last year's bestselling How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Howard J. Ruff suggested that squirreling away,dehydrated food and storing gallons of water represented about the best investment people could make. Casey, a gold bug, advises selling everything at hand and putting up to half the proceeds into "a well-hidden hoard." He likes bullion the best, but he also favors some gold mine stocks and South African Krugerrands. He confidently predicts that gold will eventually hit at least $1,600 per oz., but fails...
...latest tactic against the fungus pits bug against bug. Plant Pathologist Gary Strobel at Montana State University has been injecting pseudomonad bacteria into infected trees: the microbes multiply and attack the fungus. Strobel's program is still in the experimental stage, but there have been some modestly promising results. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., for instance, injections were given to 20 badly diseased trees; seven were saved...
Though GE was pleased by the decision, it seems in no rush to exploit the bug commercially. Ronald Brooks, head of the GE environmental unit where Chakrabarty did his work, says that the company would entertain licensing agreements with those who want to develop the oil eater. But he adds that GE does not see a market big enough for it to become directly involved...
...never ate a bug that big before," says I the old gunfighter (Steve McQueen), faced down by a lobster at a cattlemen's banquet in a raw Wyoming town. His voice is soft, whisky-warm and a bit rueful; he knows that in 1901 his day is over, that he is out of place among the boost ers and dealers who have built the town and fenced the range. They have brought him here to wipe out a gang of rustlers, but his murderous skills and cranky in dependence make the clean-shirt-once-a-week crowd nervous. Before...