Word: mosquitoe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mosquitoes, which carry such diseases as malaria and yellow fever, also transport the deadly AIDS virus? The question arose in 1985, when the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta studied an unusually dense clustering of AIDS sufferers in the mosquito-infested area of Belle Glade, Fla. Last week the Atlanta Constitution stirred up the mosquito scare anew by publishing the preliminary findings of a research team sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Its tentative conclusion: the AIDS virus can indeed ride as a passenger on the blood-sucking mosquito...
...some watchers are dedicated nonactivists who enjoy birding largely for the companionship it brings. A birder can travel a thousand miles into the wilds of another state and find instant rapport with local birding fanatics, who are busy collecting new species, along with mosquito bites and ticks. "Camaraderie is what birding is all about," says Benton Basham, a Chattanooga, Tenn., anesthetist...
Unfortunately, The Mosquito Coast (based on Paul Theroux's 1982 novel) is not a postcard. It is a movie, recording in painful detail the self-righteous Allie's trek toward a predictable tragedy, herding his long-suffering family before him as he goes. And though Harrison Ford offers a hypnotizing portrayal of a man covering despair with lunatic optimism, hysteria with bravado and rigid self-control, a fatal prejudice lingers in the audience: we do not want to spend a couple of hours with Allie here any more than we would if he were, heaven forfend, our next-door neighbor...
...drawn to shoot stories of strong men in death-defying jungle locations. They end up tracking their willful protagonists to death or madness, and the audience rarely follows. With all his art and effort, Weir is unable to enlist cogent concern for Allie Fox. One escapes from The Mosquito Coast as one might from a plague of the title insects, itching and irritable...
...Trappey's jalapeno navy beans (flavored with slab bacon), a can of New Orleans French Market chicory coffee, a bag of garlic cloves suspended from the ceiling, a cold box full of sandwich meats, boudin and cheeses, a teakettle and a coffeepot, four fire extinguishers, three boxes of Raid mosquito coils, a can of Hot Shot fly and mosquito killer, kitchen matches, a Rayovac Workhorse flashlight, salt, a toolbox, two spinning rods, a case of Budweiser -- and Richard Cretini, the captain, who likes to be prepared...