Word: plasticizers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could match the loving precision with which I recreated the intonations of Carl Spagler--the cretinous golf course groundskeeper-turned-gopher-killer the future ghostbuster played in Caddys-hack. "Hello? Mr. Gopher? Yeah, hi, it's me, Mr. Rabbit," Carl would say as he dangled a plastic explosive in the shape of a rabbit into the gopher's hole. "I'mnot a plastic explosive or anything...
HARVARD'S 25th reunion book is usually a handsome hardcover volume, packed with typeset tales of alumni success and glossy then-now pictures. By comparison, Radcliffe produces a typed, xeroxed pamphlet bound in plastic and filled with rough pages, devoid of the crimson and prestige so integral to Harvard's past...
Like the diaphragm, the cap is a barrier contraceptive that blocks sperm from passing from the vagina into the uterus. A thimble-shaped device made from rubber or plastic and measuring about 1 1/2 in. in diameter, it fits snugly over the cervix, or neck of the uterus, and is held in place by suction. The diaphragm is bigger and more fragile. A thin rubber dome averaging about 3 in. wide, with a flexible rim, it is placed between the pubic bone and the vaginal wall and kept in place by tension. Both contraceptives are used with spermicide...
...common knowledge that plastic garbage bags left on or at the side of a public street are readily accessible to animals, children, scavengers, snoops and other members of the public," declared Justice Byron White for the majority. Requiring police to seek warrants before searching such refuse would therefore be inappropriate, he wrote. Rubbish, responded Dissenters William Brennan and Thurgood Marshall, who predicted that "members of our society will be shocked" by the court's ruling. "Scrutiny of another's trash is contrary to commonly accepted notions of civilized behavior," they maintained. "A single bag of trash testifies eloquently...
Right now the migrating bees have begun to reach the Pacific Coast killing fields, where hives baited with pheromones, or sexual scents, await them. Once the insects are enticed inside, plastic bags will be pulled tight over the hives to suffocate them. To prevent the bees from taking over the working hives of the more docile European honeybee, all European queen bees in the area are being marked with a bright spot of acrylic paint. Their hives will be checked every month for the presence of Africanized queens...