Word: necks
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...problem. "We call it the four-poster," says John George, a tick specialist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Kerrville. It's a bin full of corn surrounded by specially angled rollers. As deer push in to eat the corn, the rollers coat the animal's head and neck with a pesticide that targets mites and ticks. Pilot studies on 50-acre plots have produced a 95% drop in the local tick population. "What's neat about this is that it's safe for the deer and doesn't involve wholesale spraying," George says. "We're hoping...
...show, held at a Parisian medical school festooned with swaths of red velvet and caged ravens, had been plagued by rumors that it would feature real human bones and teeth. Not so. The handlike skeletons under the lace mantilla were made of resin. The swan around SHALOM HARLOW'S neck, right, was as faux as the eyelashes, eyebrows and pupils adorning CHRYSTELE, left. "There are two or three pieces I'd love to have," said Demi Moore after the show. Of course, that doesn't mean she would wear them...
...lance photographer Robin Dallimore. Clooney snatched Dallimore's camera but was unable to remove the film and asked Dallimore to do it. The photographer obliged, then tried to flee with it, angering Clooney, who, Dallimore says, "ripped my shirt and started to claw me," leaving scratch marks on his neck. Police declined to lay charges, perhaps figuring that's the sort of thing Hellfire patrons...
With her blue cotton top worn inside out and with black riding sweats overlaid by suede chaps, Jewel lounges bareback on the Thoroughbred quarter horse she calls Jazz. She wraps her arms around his neck after riding him in an indoor arena at the stable in Del Mar, Calif., a few miles from the house she has just bought outside San Diego. She'd like to take him on the road. "If Neil Young can go out with a truck full of Harleys, I can have a horse trailer. I'm sure country acts do." She pauses at that last...
...pain in the neck," says a veteran Justice hand about the proliferation of plumbers' squads. "Some days, we spend a lot of the day being interviewed." Among the offending disclosures: a Washington Post story by Bob Woodward and Brian Duffy that detailed U.S. intelligence intercepts of a covert Chinese-government scheme to funnel illicit money into political campaigns; revelations of plea-bargain negotiations between Justice and Hani Abdel Rahim Hussein al-Sayegh, a Saudi dissident nabbed in Canada and suspected of driving a lookout car for the truck bombers who killed 19 U.S. servicemen in Dhahran last June; reports that...