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...host of microscopic bugs afflicts honeybees, including the vampiric Varroa destructor, which sucks the blood of bees. The mites first appeared in the U.S. in 1987, and they've taken a severe toll on honeybees, which had been in decline even before CCD. The bites of the mites don't kill the bees, but they produce open wounds that leave the insects prone to further infections. Tracheal mites, which attack the respiratory system, are also a suspect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going Green: Beepocalypse Now? | 9/13/2007 | See Source »

...been chosen by the Strokes, Dougan said, “just as Gozer from Ghost Busters let Venkman, Egon and Stantz choose the form of their destructor...

Author: By Kyle J. Berkman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Strokes Punish ’Poonster In Go-Kart Around Castle | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...each exploratory scene, a spotlight flashes from above and shrill, discordant noise blares. Ba’al alone suffers these sensorial punishments or pangs of conscience. In time, the sounds amplify and the lights blind as Ba’al fully transforms into the destructor fathomed by the ballim...

Author: By Michelle Chun, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Brecht’s ‘Ba’al’ Lights Up the Loeb Ex | 2/1/2002 | See Source »

...Reader Johnson was lucky. A "Destructor" contains enough dynamite to blind or maim anyone dismantling it, and enough thermite to create a fire which most people would have trouble putting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

...surplus set was quickly identified as an I.F.F. transmitter (Identification, Friend or Foe), a highly secret wartime device used by ships and planes for broadcasting an identification signal. If the plane crashed, the "Destructor" exploded, making a molten mass of the wiring and preventing the enemy from reproducing either the wiring or the identification signal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Booby Trap | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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