Word: insectes
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HAVIARAS'S powers broaden when he shifts from describing the countryside to describing humanity. As Panagis and the others move away from the insect swarm, they find a man lying unconscious and nearly dead by the water. When they look inside the baskets of the man's mule, they see "the severed heads of four or five young men and women. The mule's owner was a headhunter, receiving pay for the heads of leftist sympathizers: Haviaras lingers on such scenes, making us feel, in the thoroughness of his description, the impact they have on Greek children...
...selection committee based its decision on Wilson's work on island biogeography--the study of small isolated habitats because of its impact on conservation in the Amazon jungle, and on the chemical secretions of insects, because of its contribution to non-toxic insect control, according to Walker...
...name of a ubiquitous computer phenomenon: the bug. In August 1945, while she and some associates were working at Harvard on an experimental machine called the Mark I, a circuit malfunctioned. A researcher using tweezers located and removed the problem: a 2-in. long moth. Hopper taped the offending insect into her logbook. Says she: "From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs...
...Gregor Samsa awoke one morning... he found, himself transformed in his bed into a giant insect... What has happened to me? he thought. It was no dream. The MetamorphosisFranz Kafka...
Other students have found the work unpleasant, partly because of rampant insect infestation...