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While most people are not directly affected by the work of the Radiation Protection Group, the EHS is also responsible for dealing with matters that crawl into the daily lives of most University employees and students. Alpert, who is officially known as the University's entomologist and pest control officer, is responsible, as Ferris says, for "wiping out the beasties" that infest the University...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Watchdog of the Laboratories | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...often happens, he says, that the libraries or research labs like the MCZ will receive a shipment of research specimens from a foreign land, and some unknown insects crawl out. The researchers worry that their books or supplies will be destroyed...

Author: By Christopher J. Georges, | Title: Watchdog of the Laboratories | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

...bizarre, Berger describes the codger's funeral through the eyes of Junior, the teen-age lout: "As he watched the bronze box being lowered into the grave he could not help thinking of that little ditty that went: Your eyes fall in/ Your teeth fall out/ The worms crawl over/ Your nose and mouth. Dying was a lousy thing, and he intended to avoid it, for its inevitability seemed only theoretical to him. How did they know that you couldn't live forever? Had anybody ever tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millvillers and Hornbeckers | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...members of The Collaboration creep and crawl and slither onto the stage, swinging their arms around and shrieking like monkeys. One of them spots the microphone in the center of the stage reaches up, touches it, and screams. Then he straightens up, grabs the mike, scans the audience, and then, eyes directed up toward the heavens, says: "I've discovered comedy." And in the following two hours of skits and songs and improvisational routines. Boston's newest comedy group livens up the stage and introduces its audience to a pleasure most people outside Chicago have never previously discovered--live comedy...

Author: By Thomas J. Meyer, | Title: Anything Can Happen | 5/16/1983 | See Source »

...which appeared almost certain to sweep many of the top prizes just a few months ago, managed, by contrast, to crawl away with only four minor trophies. Gandhi took most of the awards E. T. was expected to get, including Best Director (Richard Attenborough), Best Original Screenplay (John Briley), Best Cinematography (Billy Williams and Ronnie Taylor) and Best Film Editing (John Bloom). All in all, the 3-hr. 5-min. epic won eight prizes, more than any other film since Cabaret, which snatched eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: History Crunches Popcorn | 4/25/1983 | See Source »

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