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...rise to as many as 16 quadrillion descendants in five years. Armed with 80,000 rasping teeth and weighing up to a pound, each of these offspring can wade through an entire head of lettuce at one sitting. "It eats anything," says University of Michigan zoologist J.B. Burch. House paint. Dead Rats. Beer. Describing an infestation in Ceylon early in this century, a British explorer wrote, "The huge snails were to be seen -- literally in millions -- crawling over the ground, climbing up walls, fences, and poles." The few Giants that have been captured by the feds thus far appear...
...sleaze business." But the line between sleaze and hard-nosed campaigning is difficult to draw, and there is little indication that Bush's no-first-use doctrine has received wide distribution among his campaign staff. As one senior adviser to the campaign said last month, "We are going to paint Clinton as a man out of control, who can't control his zipper, can't control his wife and can't control his waistline...
...World War. Contrast is his chief tool and he wrings as much life from it as he can. Unfortunately, the pre-war scenes are too saccharine to be taken seriously, and the war-on-the-home-front scenes are too melodramatic to affect. Perhaps unwittingly, Wyler does paint am interesting picture of suburban England, with its flower shows, comfortable houses and local royalty. Dame May Whitty steals the show as a grumpy countess with a passion for home-grown flowers...
...promotion, searches for new businesses and government help. In Sanford, N.C., Richard Lawrence took Stone's counsel and began to cruise the Wal-Mart that opened in January, comparing prices and merchandise in his store, Mann's Hardware, a town fixture since 1927. He became more competitive in gifts, paint and hardware and reopened an industrial-supply line. "We felt the Wal-Mart impact at first," says Lawrence. "But business is coming back. With a little more time it should swing back to normal...
...have tocontend with stiff local competition for thegambling dollar. there are dogs at Raynham Parkthoroughbreds at Rockingham Park. there's thelargest state lottery in the country. There's alsoSuffolk Downs just a mile away. In Vader's 1989canine boom/equine bust article Suffolk Downsplayed the Yesterdayland foil: "At Suffolk Downsthe paint is peeling, the windows are splatteredwith pigeon droppings and the pitted asphalt islittered with hot-dog wrappers from the sad littlesnack bars." But Suffolk Downs has undergonerenovations of its own, and is presently enjoyinga mini-resurgence...