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...adult mosquitoes-which can spread encephalitis and other diseases-but it is too late to eliminate the insect hordes. Says Massachusetts Agriculture Official Charles Cannon: "We used to control mosquitoes with massive, year-round larvacide projects. In the summer we sprayed, and in the winter we put down a powder pesticide on ice and snow, which would run off into streams and kill larvae. This year all the pesticide was washed away, and now the problem is getting out of control...
...spectators' glee. I am not amused by it. I keep the cool, calm pose of the chemist measuring out his medicine. I put into my pill a gram of imbroglio, a gram of licentiousness, a gram of observation. As well as I can, I grind them all into a powder. And I can tell, almost without fail, the effect that they will produce...When the work is done, what a relief! I regain my freedom. Georges Feydeau...
...through the 175 million-mile-wide asteroid belt. The greatest danger may not come from any of the 1,831 charted asteroids that range in diameter from one mile to 480 miles, but from untold numbers of tiny fragments, some of them no bigger than a grain of talcum powder. At typical asteroid speeds (30,000 m.p.h.), such minuscule bullets could easily puncture one of Pioneer's vital parts...
...small troupe of men who supplied the powder for McGovern's bombshells so far have generally been a youngish, Ivy League crowd who have solid respect among their colleagues but are not widely known to laymen. Their strongest bond has been the noneconomic preoccupation of ending the war. Several worked for Robert Kennedy or Eugene McCarthy in 1968, and nearly all agreed to work for McGovern primarily because of his views on Viet Nam. On economic matters, they are considered advance-guard liberals who favor a steady and perhaps wrenching move toward economic equality. All zealously deny that either...
...Satan, thou hast seen fit to charge Warlock Shai with thy priesthood on earth ... the deification of the human race." Reciting an ordination rite first in Latin and then in English, the speaker taps a second man on each shoulder with a sword. Someone pours flash powder on the sterno altar flame and whoosh! Fire leaps toward the ceiling...