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Congressman Tom Delay, the pest-control expert from Laredo, Texas, knows all about the black art of extermination. So how did the majority whip so thoroughly botch the job he undertook two weeks ago, when he tried to eradicate a king-size Newt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: READY, AIM, MISFIRE | 7/28/1997 | See Source »

...Eagles were like an annoying mosquito, and it didn't take much for the Crimson to squash the pest...

Author: By Rebecca A. Blaeser, | Title: W. Polo Impresses at Tournament | 9/30/1996 | See Source »

Among the issues he dealt with were radiation protection, sanitation, industrial hygiene and pest control...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Former SPH Professor Dies | 8/9/1996 | See Source »

...share. Cuban agriculture nearly collapsed following the breakup of the Soviet Union, which for years subsidized Cuba with discount petroleum and petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides. So scientists at CIGB concentrated on improving the food supply. Among other things, they equipped sugarcane and potatoes with bacterial genes that confer pest resistance and added an extra growth-hormone gene to tilapia, creating a faster-growing variant of that tasty freshwater fish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MADE IN CUBA | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

...million that Columbia paid Jim Carrey to appear in this comedy of obsession looks like the summer's canniest investment. With loose-dentured diction and bodice-ripping devotion, he leeches onto mild-mannered Matthew Broderick. Only a genius of goonery, an Ace Caricatura like Carrey, could play an egregious pest and make him appealing--at least for the 2 min. 25 sec. of the trailer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: SUDDENLY THIS SUMMER | 5/13/1996 | See Source »

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