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...Japanese should be branded environmental outlaws. Although the nation embraced Western materialism in this century, one of the strongest threads in its more than 2,000 years of cultural traditions has always been a deep love of nature. Typical is the story of the monk Ryokan who slept under mosquito netting in the summer not to prevent being bitten by an insect but to avoid squashing one inadvertently while he slept. The Japanese, though, have never been passive conservationists. Consider the bonsai, the tiny trees that are shaped over generations into living pieces of sculpture. The bonsai represent the landscape...
Sidney Lumet has been here before, directing the 1983 Daniel, a fictionalized look at the Rosenberg spy family. And Phoenix has already played, in The Mosquito Coast, a teenager whose idealistic dad kept his family on the run; Plimpton offered pert consolation in that film too. Those films foundered on their ambitions; this time the pieces fall together. The actors are an ensemble who know each other like, well, family. Hirsch is righteous and funny without ever being Alan Alda; Lahti etches another of her nifty modern heroines; Phoenix shows the strength and range that could make him a must...
...addition to change, books and boxes oflaundry detergent, dorm crew workers often findmore peculiar items. One worker, who asked not tobe identified, says she found a refrigerator, aninflatable giant mosquito and an untapped keg ofbeer in one of the rooms...
...Texas residents have been abuzz about the imminent invasion of Africanized honeybees. But in recent months the hum over the so-called killer bees has reached frenzied proportions. Local television stations have been running tapes from crews dispatched to Central America, showing ferocious swarms attacking researchers and news crews. Mosquito eradication units have been readied with special gear to wipe out the expected insect intruders. Several times a week, Houstonians sound the alarm, phoning pest-control agencies with the urgent and disquieting news: "They're here...
...AIDS virus -- theoretically at least -- can be transmitted via mosquito bites, French kissing, toilet seats -- and by sliding into second base (if, by chance, an infected player has bled onto...