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...woolly slug is concentrated in eleven states from Maryland to Missouri and Texas, but it has close kin in the Northeast: the caterpillar of the white moth, Lagoa crispata. Other common stingers are the range and saddleback caterpillars, and those of the buck, lo, tussock and brown-tail moths. Where the caterpillars are especially abundant, their hairs may fly through the air in such numbers as to bring on asthma attacks in children who never even touch the beast directly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Toxicology: Beware the Woolly Worm | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...guise as an ex-Crimson editor, Professor Emerson has responded to our request for a report on independence Day in Lagoa, Nigeria where he has been visiting...

Author: By Rupert Emerson, PROFESSOR OF GOVERNMENT | Title: Report on Nigerian Independence | 10/13/1960 | See Source »

When students at Brazil's Rural University went on strike last week against the wretched food served in the university cafeteria, Rural's President Rocha Lagoa called the cops. Armed with Tommy guns and tear gas, red-capped Special Police roared up to the campus, but found nothing to do-although the students were cutting classes, they were causing no trouble. Bored, the cops drifted over to the university football field. Students invited them to get up a team. Final score: Students 4, Police...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Cops on the Campus | 8/22/1949 | See Source »

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