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Revlon, the cosmetics giant, responded to a hostile takeover bid last week by putting on its war paint. The company's extra touch was a repellent that could be termed poison lipstick. Pantry Pride, a Fort Lauderdale-based supermarket chain, offered $1.8 billion for Revlon, or $47.50 per share. Declaring that the company was not for sale, Revlon's chairman, Michel Bergerac, and its board of directors adopted a variation on the so-called poison pill defense, in which the takeover target makes itself too financially painful to consume. In Revlon's case, the company would allow all shareholders except...
...Italian press, never renowned for its restraint, tackled the story with gusto. Turin's La Stampa carried a headline about "poison salad on the table." Public fears grew when one newspaper erroneously reported that infant mortality was widespread in the tomato-growing area. Although the Italian government gave the crop a clean bill of health, public uncertainty lingers. Francesco De Lorenzo, Under Secretary of the Ministry of Health, declared that the state had tested the samples with procedures identical to those of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and had found no traces of the pesticide above .05 parts...
Once the insects have paired, they mate openly on tree trunks and branches, without regard for the fact that they can easily be picked off and eaten by predators or squashed and dusted with poison by humans. But most survive, and the female is able to lay upwards of 500 eggs in slits that she makes in twigs. The lives of the adults are soon over, and they die. But in eight weeks the cicada nymphs hatch and burrow down into the ground to reach the tree roots, on which they will feed and grow slowly for the next...
...kitchen are rusted cast-iron stoves, muffin tins in the ovens, wire whisks the size of basketballs suspended from a rack. From down a dim passageway comes the sound of boots crunching glass underfoot, and out into the light appears a rat patrol, four hard hats spreading poison. From the darkest corners the beams of contractors carrying out inspections by flashlight dance around like fireflies...
...warrior he reported seeing in the Inferno, buried up to the eyes in rivers of blood. With what zeal did Bosch and Bruegel similarly portray malefactors being torn at by giant birds or skeletons. Yet the avenger himself was traditionally punished too. Orestes goes mad; Hamlet dies of poison; Captain Ahab ends in a tangle of rope dragged by Moby Dick. Revenge is both necessary and forbidden...