Word: onto
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wave of Africanized killer bees reaches the Texas border as early as next year, some of the restless insects may be turned into informants for the scientists who are plotting against them. The aerospace company Martin Marietta has designed a solar-powered microchip transmitter that can be glued snugly onto a bee's back, enabling entomologists to follow the swarm's movements and observe the bees' mating and foraging habits. The transmitter emits an infrared signal that can be detected up to a mile away. The company is still testing the tiny bee tracer, which it hopes to sell...
More good news: the opportunity for conservation is considerable, considering the scale of profligacy now encouraged in Western agriculture. Throughout the region, scarce but subsidized water is inefficiently flooded onto marginal soil to raise crops like cotton and rice that are already in surplus and must often be bought at a loss by the Federal Government. A recent study, commissioned by Democratic Congressman George Miller of California, showed that fully a third of the Government's $535 million annual spending on irrigation water flows to farmers who receive other agricultural subsidies. Miller has introduced legislation to halt this double dipping...
...this elaborate new blend of animation and live action co-produced by Disney and Steven Spielberg, the "cartoon before the movie" is how the movie begins. As you settle into your seat, the Maroon cartoon studio logo flares onto the screen, announcing Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Baby Herman and Roger Rabbit. For a few minutes of inventive mayhem, the infant crawls toward every lethal kitchen appliance while his harried hare of a baby-sitter works frantically to keep things from blowing up. It's the comedy of anticipated disaster -- the nightmare anxiety that propelled so many of Avery...
...friends like Mickey and Bugs, Tweety and Betty Boop, and new ones, like the '80s version of Snow White's dwarfs: Greasy, Wheezy, Smart Ass, Psycho and Stupid. Once the plot gets rolling, and Hoskins is handcuffed to his fugitive client, you may forget that Roger was drawn onto the scene long after it was shot...
...social climate, but suddenly it seems as though all around the country people are going to any length to find their garden: to read about it, visit it and, if at all possible, create it. Mailboxes bulge with gardening catalogs, groceries grow on windowsills, cranes hoist trees onto city rooftops. From coast to coast, nursery owners say their business has doubled. Even baby boomers who did not have the remotest interest in the subject two years ago now rattle off the Latin names of their plants and comb suburban garden stores for just the right style of Japanese weed whipper...