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...humans. Some resolute citizens are said to chew garlic before venturing outdoors, hoping wistfully that what works for vampires will also drive off ticks. Ken Liegner, a Westchester County, N.Y., doctor with many Lyme disease patients, has invented a "deer gazebo" that would lure whitetails with a salt lick or apple mash and shower them with pesticide. The rumor persists that Lyme-infected veterinarians have dosed themselves with canine Lyme vaccine not tested in humans...
...likeness." In a nightmare, Ivan meets the devil, a character of oddly shabby gentility, who mentions how cold it was in space, from which he lately came, traveling in only an evening suit and open waistcoat. The devil speaks of the game of village girls who persuade someone to lick a frosted ax, to which of course the tongue sticks. The devil wonders idly, "What would become of an ax in space?" It would orbit there, "and the astronomers would calculate the rising and setting of the ax." Dostoyevsky's devil was prescient, speaking a century before bright metal began...
...wants alumni money. Harvard thinks (falsely, we believe) that alumni will not make gifts to Harvard if their kids are not admitted. Conversely, Harvard expects alumni with children who do get in to give a lot more than their peers. So Harvard forfeits its own ideals in order to lick alumni boots that don't need licking...
Despotic dorm crew supervisors will make their workers lick the shower stalls clean (three times). Loose floor tiles in the houses will be repaired overnight and daffodils will suddenly appear in every patch where Facility Maintenance's Fast-Gro grass seed failed...
...hurtling minutes. He can't wait for the moon to rise; with time-lapse photography he Frisbees it into the sky. He tells the history of Western expansion in one minute, with subtitles and sound effects. And he isn't satisfied with man or nature. Flames of neon lick the clouds; an electric fan helps cool the desert...