Word: bugging
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Genetic engineers hope a new blue bug that can be easily tracked in the field will reduce public fears. -- Measuring ancient air in amber...
Efforts to contain Lyme disease are under way. In an attempt to disrupt the tick's life cycle, Harvard researchers have developed cardboard tubes containing insecticide-treated cotton that attract nesting mice and keep them bug-free. Meanwhile, work has begun on a vaccine and a urine test that may provide earlier diagnosis than the current blood test. Until a vaccine is available, however, the best protection is wearing long pants tucked into socks when walking in brushy areas -- or even in the backyard...
Will He, Or Won't He?: Last spring it seemed that new Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and former Governor of Pennsylvania, Richard L. Thornburgh, had given up politics for academia. But then the four-year bug which has already afflicted more than a dozen of the nation's political leaders bit him: the Presidency...
Will He, Or Won't He?: Last spring it seemed that new Director of the Institute of Politics (IOP) and former Governor of Pennsylvania, Richard L. Thornburgh, had given up politics for academia. But then the four-year bug which has already afflicted more than a dozen of the nation's political leaders bit him: the Presidency...
...Paul sporting a Detroit Tigers cap with the caption BLESS YOU BOYS. The prize for the most spectacularly tasteless souvenir goes to a Detroit firm that is marketing a $55, 30-in.-high aluminum Pope-shaped lawn sprinkler, called Let Us Spray. Not everyone is afflicted with the commercial bug. Some ticket brokers thought scalping for papal rallies would be a bit much. "Frankly, I think it's sacrilegious," said Rick Kline, of Los Angeles' Front Row Center Ticket Service...