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Daterman knows the pheromone's power from personal experience: "You can take a shower, shave, wash your clothes, and the moths will still find you." Nonetheless, Daterman is willing to suffer the indignity of the moths' affections for the sake of insect control. After all, he says, "it's only embarrassing in the presence of another scientist who knows what the moth has on his mind...
...charges against Chiang Ch'ing were calculated to shock the puritanical and egalitarian People's Republic. Madame Mao's personal life was said to be like that of the 7th century Empress Wu, notorious for her extravagance and lubricity. Accordingly, Chiang Ch'ing ordered every insect killed and every leaf dusted by her minions before she would venture to visit a Canton botanical garden. During bouts of insomnia, the imperious lady issued orders that work at a nearby noisy shipbuilding factory be stopped. So sensitive was she to noise that she once ordered her waiters...
...made by placing objects directly on photosensitive paper), startling constructions built out of everyday items (such as a flatiron studded with a row of tacks), and paintings, about which he was the most serious. Ray delighted in having no readily identifiable style. "Life is an instant, a one-day insect," he once said. "There's no time to do two things alike...
...first men to be blacklisted for leftist sympathies. A happier, realistic segment shows the early Academy Awards, presided over by a brash young newcomer named Bob Hope. Perhaps the show's most comic sequences are the ones that started out to be serious-a parade of insect mutants from post-A-bomb sci-fi epics, Elizabeth Taylor served up like a high-priced entree in Cleopatra, a series of youthquake teen films (Teen Age Cave Man is a typical example) to lure the young back into the moviehouses...
...genes at any time overnight. I said before that the NIH is trying very hard to set reasonable guidelines. Many of those guidelines I believe will not be enforced, and indeed can not be enforced. I'll give you an example. Every level of so-called containment asks for insect and rodent control. Matt and I work in a 50 year-old building that is absolutely infested with little red Egyptian ants. As far as I know they are ineradicable. It is the last place in the world to begin doing recombinant DNA research...