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Illusions of future ease were shortlived. Only madmen, the motorists soon discovered, tried to drive into Russia that summer. In Russia, what roads they found were rivers of mud; what rivers they came to were all but impassable. The hotels were primitive pestholes, thriving with insect life and always located next to the sleep-shattering din of a dance hall. They rolled into Moscow in four battered heaps, so filthy that the cheering crowds at their reception hardly recognized them as the heroes of the occasion...
...away for 5. There is a tiger hunt, but also its backstage management: the twelve-year-old boys, armed with clay hand grenades loaded with gunpowder, whose job it is to flush the frightened cats from their grass-filled ravine. Vividly, Author Campbell makes the reader experience the suffocating, insect-filled heat of India, the pervasiveness of religion and sex-often in combination-the desperation of the poor and the rapacity of the rich...
...Weyerhaeuser Timber Co., which is able to evaluate insect damage in 1% of the time previously required. Weyerhaeuser is now moving into helicopters to reseed forest areas faster and more economically than before...
...Central Kitchen victims: "Should you find a worm or insect in your food, say nothing about...
...science and the sheer fun of it, Zoologist Graham Hoyle of the University of Glasgow set about learning what puts the hop in the grasshopper. Writing in Scientific American, Hoyle tells how he used a slow-motion camera to analyze how the insect cocks its rear legs "by squatting with the femurs (thighs) doubled against the tibiae (shins)," rears up and takes off with a velocity of about 10 ft. per second. The jumping muscle of the grasshopper, which weighs only one twenty-fifth of a gram, develops "the astounding power of some 20,000 grams per gram...