Word: excrementalism
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...confirm it. Now, to the considerable embarrassment of U.S. officials, a group of respected scientists has offered a new theory. Said Harvard Biochemist Matthew Meselson last week at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "There is good evidence that yellow rain is bee excrement...
...defecate during the winter or rainy seasons, he explains, a large volume of feces accumulates over these long periods. Meselson admits, however, that the origin of the toxins is not easily explained, though he noted that the poison might be produced by fungi that often grow on bee excrement. In any case, Meselson says, the bee theory "opens up the realm of natural explanations for yellow rain in a way not previously done." The problem for the Government was that with international relations at stake, there was still so much room for scientific controversy...
This year brought more drama, excrement and success than any other you in the 131-year history of Harvard intercollegiate athletics. The highlight of all came when the men's hockey team through the playoffs to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) fire (Upper left corner) Defenseman MIT BOLSON leaps into the air after scoring open-net goal against Yale. Hockey-may swept the campus, uniting the student be like nothing else in recent years. Fans tossed tennis balls, coins and a live chicken the ice during the Cornell game (lower ), and at the game's end one students...
...like the world's oldest existentialist: "Look for the risk. We must obey it every time. There is no credit to be drawn from the virtue of one's past." This figure has given much thought during his lives to the mysterious, possibly magic properties of human excrement, a topic that Mailer has pondered in an essay called "The Metaphysics of the Belly" and in various interviews. The purpose of Menenhetet's research, he tells Ramses IX, is "to enrich the marrow of our failing lands," a task reminiscent of the "great mission" that Mailer took...
...nasty incidents. Harris received mysterious, obscene phone calls. She telephoned Tryforos every night for a month. The women alternated in sharing Tarnower's bed and left their belongings in his bathroom. Harris repeatedly tossed out Tryforos' curlers. A favorite dress of Harris' was found smeared with excrement. Harris whined and wheedled as her feelings fluctuated between jealous rage and obsessive dependence. By the time she entered the doctor's bedroom for the last time, a gun in one hand and a bunch of flowers in the other, she had truly descended into what Yeats called...