Word: insects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outer-space visitors, no insect mutations, nothing from the black lagoon, just a plain old-fashioned maniac. I was too scared even to remember his name...
Vectors & Variety. Researchers have long known that encephalitis (inflammation of the brain) is caused by viruses transmitted to men and farm animals from infected birds by insect vectors (i.e., carriers), usually mosquitoes or ticks. The viruses have been divided into distinct families labeled "A" and "B"; they crop up around the world in a variety of guises, e.g., Japanese "B" in eastern Asia; Murray Valley Fever in Australia; Mayaro and Ilheus in South and Central America; dengue in India and the West Indies; Chikungunya in Africa; Omsk hemorrhagic fever in Russia. Only a few of the forms circulate widely, even...
Totally without industry, Laos has only two legal exports of any importance: 1) benzoin and 2) stick-lac, an insect product that is used as an ingredient in lacquer and varnish. But the country's main crop is opium (one-third of world production") grown on the mountaintops by Meo tribesmen who also profess to be werewolves. Laos' biggest import is U.S. dollars-for the past five years U.S. aid has run from $43 million to $54 million a year...
...next three months he will awaken at 4 a.m., spend mornings begging food, afternoons in meditation. He will try to observe 228 commandments and confess each failure, no matter how small (example: inadvertently killing an insect). And when the 90 days are over, he will return to his worldly occupation -respected and, he hopes, revitalized for the daily toil in the world of appearances...
Billington also cited "the malaise of Soviet youth." In Russia, he said, there seems to be an inability to handle the new generation. In fact, the Youth Congress has termed adolescents in Russia "bugs and beetles who must be blotted out by insect exterminant...