Word: mosquitoe
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...months, Nigeria's federal government had been trying to take Port Harcourt, and getting nowhere. When it sent boats in from the southwest, they got lost in the mosquito-infested mangrove swamps. To seal off the southeast, the Biafrans pumped a continuous stream of crude oil into the Bonny channel and set it permanently ablaze. To guard against aerial attacks, they mounted heavy artillery atop the city's tallest buildings, and drove barbed stakes into open fields as protection against paratroopers. They even put nozzles on oil pipelines, converting them into instant flamethrowers. As a result, the Nigerian...
...exertions create such a potential situation. Such situations are the result of basic economic and social inequities in a society. A large mass of people, oppressed and poor, will sooner or later breed its own firebrands. Persecuting them is as futile as attempting to eradicate malaria by annihilating every mosquito rather than cleaning the swamp...
Meanwhile I was getting used to sleeping under mosquito nets while educating my ears to the booms produced by different kinds of American ordnance used on the outskirts of Saigon at night. The noise of shelling competed with the constant drone of helicopters and jets taking off and landing at Ton San Nhut, only a ten-minute walk from the International Voluntary Services house. During the day I tried to get to know Saigon and imagine what it might look like without its oppressive cocoon of sandbags, barricades, rolls of concertina wire and black exhaust soot (military traffic has created...
Stuffed Moose & Stacked Tibias There is something distinctly unsettling about the welded metal sculptures of Richard Hunt, 32, currently the subject of a major exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Center. They seem deliberately designed to elude description. Some are needly and spiky, reminiscent of a mosquito-or perhaps a reconstructed set of blood vessels. Others are bloated, like an octopus with tentacles waving, a man-eating plant, or an anchor squiggling into a second life as a giant sting ray. Still others are stalklike, stiffly articulated into a stack of tibias, and one hangs off the wall-looking...
...stretch, sacrificing the airport to save the city's core. Water mains burst and sewers backed up, spurting like geysers, as exhausted workers clung to the defense perimeter. Armed guards battled diamondback rattlesnakes as plentiful as worms after rain. Bushes turned black with water-shy tarantulas, and the mosquito population exploded beyond control...