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...school. Baruchello zips around Rome with the dash of -a young man going places; in painting he shows more caution. He draws little bugs, squiggles, squooshes on Plexiglas or on translucent white canvases in the vacant perspective of flyspecked windowpanes, makes them move in startling patterns-as though the insect were still buzzing around. Through April...
...jaguar safari in Sarapiqui is no sport for weak knees or weak stomachs. Not for Costa Ricans are the portable refrigerators, battery-operated LP phonographs and folding beds of the Kenya set. In Sarapiqui it is man; tent, sleeping bag and insect repellent against the elements. The. jungle is so thick, even on the-trails, that it sometimes takes a machete-wieldiag hunter 20 minutes to go 100 yds., Standard safari fare is beans and rice, plus what, ever the hunter shoots for the pot-boar steaks,, perhaps, or delicate morsels of tepez-cuintle, a 25-lb. creature that claims...
...century ascetics of Egypt and Syria are hard to take seriously: St. Maron, who spent eleven years in a hollowed-out tree trunk; St. Acepsimas, who wore so many chains he had to crawl on all fours; Macarius the Younger, who felt so guilty about swatting an insect that he sat naked in a swamp for six months until mosquito bites made him look like a leper...
...reasons, are warned against snakes early in life. They should be able to recognize the symbol and heed its warning. The recommendation is that stickers be put not only on dangerous medicines, but on containers for such poisons, among others, as ammonia, antifreeze, bleaches and disinfectants containing chlorine, gasoline, insect and rat poisons, kerosene and lead paints...
...sure, will have the shock value of the legendary Perry W. Fattig of Atlanta. A shy entomologist, Fattig practically made a second profession of taking the stand when soft-drink bottlers were sued when bugs were found in their beverages. Expert Fattig would explain that eating an insect could be harmless, then he would plop a live roach in his mouth and chew it up. The demonstration was invariably impressive, but most trial lawyers agree with San Francisco's Jake Ehrlich, who looks not for stuntmen but for experts with "a pleasant demeanor, good solid judgment, some learning...