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...entomologist says that aggressive squirrels have been known to chew through window screens and to eat apples on students' desks...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Hsu, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Are Squirrels a First-Year's Friend? Or Are They Only Glorified Rats? | 12/12/1992 | See Source »

Though platonic themes occasionally move us, the sexual themes consistently engender the funniest jokes. Like Crowe's other films, Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Say Anything, Singles is a film whose lewd lines innumerable adolescents will memorize and chew as cud. One of the more long-lasting laughs comes after Steve, in a childhood flashback, confuses spam with sperm while discussing procreation with the boys...

Author: By Marc D. Zelanko, | Title: Sexy, Spunky and Single | 10/1/1992 | See Source »

...reason bacteria acquire resistance to several antibiotics is that many drugs are derivative of one another. For example, when bacteria developed an enzyme to chew up penicillin, drug designers retaliated with larger antibiotic molecules that did not fit into the site that serves as that enzyme's "mouth." In short order, says Dr. Mitchell Cohen, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, "the bacteria responded to the challenge by developing an enzyme with a bigger mouth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Attack of The Superbugs | 8/31/1992 | See Source »

...wartime improvisation in 1943, when the military had taken most of the male ballplayers and thereby virtually wiped out the minor leagues, the women's circuit managed to persist for 11 seasons. Its initial appeal was a combination of the freaky (Hey, Herb, you think maybe they chew tobacco too?) and the sexy (You should see them little skirts fly up when they slide!). But there were a lot of frustrated tomboys out there who loved the game and were good at it, and who were willing to brave male haw-hawing (and genteel feminine disapproval) in order to strut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Girls Of Summer | 7/6/1992 | See Source »

...Hanley Chew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Congratulations to The Crimson's Class of 1992 | 6/3/1992 | See Source »

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