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That, alas, is precisely the problem. Now roughly a century after that flight of poetic fancy, clover and, indeed, a host of other crops have been laced with a chemical pesticide that may threaten the blissful honeybee with extinction. The culprit is methyl parathion, which has been used to combat pests like the boll weevil, scourge of the cotton fields. But methyl parathion is highly dangerous stuff. Only a dab will penetrate the skin, attack the nervous system and kill humans as well as insects...
More serious theorists had a more obvious culprit-Israel. Fearful that Iraq would use the reactor to produce bombs rather than electricity, the Israelis have been protesting the proposed shipment for the past three years. The French had been stung many times before by MOSSAD, Israel's secret service, notably on Christmas morning 1969, when its agents piloted five embargoed gunboats from the port city of Cherbourg to Haifa in a daring and well-executed maneuver. Certainly, Israel benefits from the sabotage, but its officials have denied that they triggered the La Seyne explosion, branding such suggestions "anti-Semitism...
...Brien's leaks that he did some detective work. The result: last week John A. Tucci, a Government Printing Office employee who sets Supreme Court rulings in type, was transferred to the U.S. Patent Office. Burger will not say how he concluded that Tucci was the culprit; Tucci says that Burger has no proof...
...where the professor had been. "The rumors flew hot and heavy," Bryant remembers, but the professor had merely forgotten his things. Incidents of theft rattle his memory further. While Bryant was still a student, the story is told, a man stole thousands of books from the collection. The culprit was later caught and in each of the books, Bryant explains, a second bookplate now states who stole the volume...
This play is literate, wise, perceptive, humane and wryly humorous, but as drama it needs a blood transfusion. Structure may be the chief culprit. Irish Play wright Brian Friel has divided the play into four Rashomon-style monologues. The first and last are spoken by Frank (James Mason), the faith healer, the second by Grace (Clarissa Kaye), his wife, and the third by Teddy (Donal Donnelly), Frank's promotional warmup...