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...thinks so: last month it began selling packages of nearly microscopic nematodes through home-garden catalogs under the name BioSafe. The company hopes to become a leader in the emerging market for environmentally safe pesticides. The worms kill insects by taking up residence inside the pests' bloodstreams but are harmless to humans, pets, birds and plants. So safe is the product, says Biosys, that it is exempt from the Environmental Protection Agency's pesticide regulations. The company hopes the safety assurance will help push annual sales to $50 million in five years. A lot of worms...
...Reagan Administration, the free flow of information can seriously jeopardize the United States' national security. For the past seven years, the Administration has adhered to a "mosaic" view of national security information, a theory that says that even bits and pieces of seemingly harmless data can be pieced together by our adversaries in such a manner that it would jeopardize our national security...
...disclaimer he writes, "Just as the people herein never existed, and the incidents described didn't happen, all sorts of Harvard rules, buldings and curricula, along with other bits of reality, have been tampered with and rearranged in order to accommodate this novel's fictive whims and entirely harmless purpose...
Although he may imitate the technique of better writers by using such allusions, here they seem out of place and forced. And his claim that the book is harmless and silly hardly conforms to the highbrow tone of the work, leaving his attempt at juggling knowledge of the literary with techniques of mass culture unsuccessful...
...Under those conditions, the only decision that could be taken was to render the criminals harmless," Sovietskaya Rossiya said...