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...biting bugs of summer bring with them the risk of serious illness and mild annoyance. While DEET, or N, N-diethyl-meta-toluamide, is a good repellent, its safety is regularly called into question. In May a Duke University study found prolonged applications of DEET caused neurological damage in rats, but the author noted that sparing and infrequent use of it on people--for weekend camping trips or outdoor barbecues--could be harmless. The Environmental Protection Agency says DEET is safe if used properly. So, what's properly...
...Meta Waller...
...Meta Waller, special programs manager for the administrative assistant to the secretary of the Army, was killed at her Pentagon desk when the hijacked airliner slammed into the building on Sept...
Waller had strong interests in the civil rights movement, inspired by her two famous grandparents, Meta Warrick Fuller, a black sculptor, and Solomon Carter Fuller, the first black psychiatrist in the United States...
...course, there are some tricks one can employ in order to simply sidestep lack-of-content syndrome. I could write a meta-column about writing a column. However, any delusions of column grandeur would soon dissipate because this idea has been employed by every hack since the invention of language. Most scholars do not even bother to read Homer’s first work—10,000 tired lines of dactylic hexameter about a blind guy trying to write a timeless epic. Homer was able to learn from his mistake and went on to compose the legendary Odyssey...