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...calls it "an aggravation." Some of Somerset's oft-bitten residents would describe it in considerably stronger terms. Because of heavy rainfall, muggy weather and high tides that keep water overly long in the salt marshes of the state's Eastern Shore, the area is aswarm with mosquitoes. To determine how bad the infestation really is, the state's department of agriculture sent human volunteers into a mosquito-infested marsh and had them stand still for 60 seconds. As many as 100 mosquitoes per minute landed on the volunteers' exposed skin and clothing. That...
Rhodesian officials shrugged off Kaunda's declaration as the diplomatic equivalent of a mosquito bite, but the brutal civil war in the runaway British colony continues-and it is the innocent who suffer most. Caught in the political crossfire, terrorized black villagers are beaten, tortured or murdered by guerrillas if they refuse to help the cause, jailed and sometimes hanged by Rhodesian government forces if they do. Earlier this month, a 15-man security-force patrol tracked a team of guerrillas through the Ndanga Tribal Trust Land to Dabwe Kraal. When darkness fell, the troops climbed over a fence...
...horizontal-vertical grid. "He wasn't using diagonals. I hate diagonals!" The effect shows in works like Rebus. 1955?a curiously fugitive image despite its size, full of airy space and images of flight: the winds from Botticelli's Birth of Venus, photographs of a bee, a dragonfly, a mosquito and a fly's eye. Gradually the objects became more dominant...
...refugee center. Fearful of further shocks, millions of residents set up temporary housekeeping in parks and streets; some 3,000 foreign residents camped in the courtyards and on the tennis courts of their embassies. Cooking utensils and beds were brought out, wash lines strung from pillars to posts, and mosquito nets slung over tree branches. Some Chinese fashioned lean-tos by resting raw lumber against walls, others by cutting down tree branches; at least one family settled down for the duration in a section of a huge drainpipe...
...strategy for achieving this goal is called integrated pest control, or ICP. Advocates of ICP leave room in their antibug arsenals for insecticides. The more potent pesticides will always be needed, they say, to cope with any insect problem that suddenly gets out of hand?a mosquito infestation brought on by an unusually hot, damp summer, for example, or an unexpected attack on a particular crop. But entomologists and agricultural scientists now believe that the most promising weapons for the battle are biological controls, which can be aimed at specific insect targets without adversely affecting either humans or the environment...