Word: mosquitoe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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AIDS may spread throught casual contact, Haseltine said. Although it is is currently known to be transmitted only by sex, donated blood, organs, and semen, and from pregnant mothers to their unborn children, it may also be transmissible by tears, saliva, bodily fluids, and mosquito bites...
Union City, N.J., is 1,300 miles from Cuba. But refugees from Fidel Castro's island so dominate the community that a service organization posts the days when the "Cuban Lions" meet. A children's shop does a brisk business in mosquiteros, lace mosquito nets for cribs that are a necessity in Cuba but only a nostalgic and expensive decoration in Union City...
...lonely and exacting business. Paul Theroux (The Mosquito Coast, The Great Railway Bazaar) is succinct: "Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves." Robert Stone (Dog Soldiers, A Flag for Sunrise) is windy and funny: "I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner. So, I thought, I'm really feeling crazy today, I think I'll go see a shrink ... He was everything that a psychiatrist should be: ... Jewish ... very together, very humane. I went to him, and I talked to him, and he said, 'What you need is religion...
...concentrated doses, the substance killed insects within hours or a few days, the report said, and it distorted behavior, depressed food consumption and inhibited reproduction in tobacco hornworms, milkweed bugs, butterfly larvae, and mosquito larvae...
...example, mosquito larvae became so uncoordinated with exposure to caffeine that they could not swim to the water's surface and drowned...