Word: coate
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...partial solution to the Lyme problem. "We call it the four-poster," says John George, a tick specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kerrville. It's a bin full of corn surrounded by specially angled rollers. As deer push in to eat the corn, the rollers coat the animal's head and neck with a pesticide that targets mites and ticks. Pilot studies on 50-acre plots have produced a 95% drop in the local tick population. "What's neat about this is that it's safe for the deer and doesn't involve wholesale spraying," George says...
...swinging wildly from 8[degrees]F to 130[degrees]F, may degrade the batteries. "We'll have to see how well they hold charges," says Wessen. Another threat, both to the lander--which is designed to survive for 30 days--and to the rover is Martian dust, which could coat the solar panels, affecting their ability to provide recharging current...
...battle to reconcile House and Senate versions should wipe the smiley off his coat. The Senate's budget includes a measure raising the Medicare age from 65 to 67 and charging higher premiums to wealthy recipients; the House bill does not. (Though the Senate's provisions are expected to die quickly, reformers are glad such medicine has finally been proposed.) And though both House and Senate offer $135 billion in tax relief, including cuts in the estate and capital-gains tax as well as a per-child tax credit, the two versions distribute the cuts in different ways. While...
...Audubon were able to visit this show mounted in his honor, he might find it a trifle modest: two rooms filled with books, watercolors, excerpts from his extensive writings, a few of the natural specimens he collected and drew, and personal effects such as his embroidered leather coat and trousers, beaded moccasins and bear-claw necklace. And all these artifacts are rather dimly lit, since the Smithsonian could not afford to install the fiber-optic lighting that would protect precious illustrations from fading. But Audubon would have found any tribute to himself insufficient; while he lived, he was as easy...
...comically undercut by the revelation of his face, and the strains of Mozart's Don Giovanni are continually succeeded by Shavian reversals of the famous legend. Costumes, too, are magnificent, including a perfect reproduction of the turn-of-the century upper-middle class English motorist's get-up (frock coat, cap and goggles) and the impressively stony garb of the Statue...