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...failure, a disgrace and the height of mismanagement." But usually the bank's efforts lead to solid accomplishments. A dramatic case is a twelve-year, $162 million effort to control the black fly in West Africa. That has saved about 3.5 million children from possible blindness caused by an insect-carried eye disease...
...esque mensch (Victor Wong). In this Temple of Doom there are girls with green eyes and beasties with red ones; the sword- flashing legerdemain and wind-whipping backflips of martial-arts movies; a tough guy who literally explodes from rage when his master dies; oh, and a giant uggy insect in the caverns under Chinatown...
...those things in her seven months in Nicaragua. She has followed the war by accompanying army troops on patrol, wading rivers and riding horseback into remote areas. Sharing the soldiers' lot, Lopez has slept on the ground, in the back of an East German military truck and in insect- infested peasant huts. "Most recently," she says, "I stayed in a hotel with walls so thin you could see through them. That didn't bother the bats, which squeaked and dive-bombed my cot from the rafters all night long." Other TIME correspondents and editors have reported on Nicaragua's civil...
...started with a dead bug. The squashed insect dropped into a typewriter at the Ministry of Information Retrieval; a bureaucrat typed the name Tuttle instead of Buttle; and poor apolitical Mr. Buttle, instead of the swashbuckling terrorist Tuttle, was taken away to be tortured and killed. Dear me, mistakes like this will happen in the Anglo-fascist fantasy world of Brazil. Imagine that Nazi Germany had colonized Britain after winning World War II, and you can visualize the film's architecture: mammoth and soulless, with huge intestinal piping that snakes through every elegant living room and posh restaurant. Imagine that...
Aside from the malodorous one, He-Man may encounter his toughest rivals in the toy stores, where this year he will face the red-hot Thundercats, from New York City-based LJN Toys, and Sectaurs, a strain of insect-like warriors made by Coleco. To give He-Man some help, Mattel has introduced his shapely sister, She-Ra, which the company hopes will get girls interested in action figures...