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Although any four councillors can call a special meeting to select a mayor, Duehay said he was not aware of any councillors planning...
Researchers speculate that overexposure to permethrin may have sparked a process of natural selection in lice. A similar use of preventive insecticides encouraged the rise of resistant strains of the mosquitoes and black flies responsible for transmitting malaria and African river blindness. Although no definitive studies on resistant strains of head lice have been completed in the U.S. (results of a Harvard investigation won't be ready for several months), two recent papers from Israel and the Czech Republic seem to support the resistant-strain theory. Says Thomas Bell, health officer for three counties in Washington State...
Privacy has been invaded in the past, and the Lee family video would still have been stolen and distributed in the era preceding the World Wide Web. The difference now is not merely of magnitude--that whereas before, only a select few would be able to watch the lascivious feats of Pamela and Tommy, while now many millions of people can join the ranks of voyeurs. It is a difference of kind: communication on the 'Net is neither private nor public. Internet communication is a new form deserving of a system of governance created especially for it. At least Tommy...
Everywhere, yesterday's trash culture was exhumed and hauled to new frontiers, in architecture (Coney Island replicated in Las Vegas) and astrogeology (a Martian rock dubbed Scooby Doo). Our critics select a film of a '90s novel set in 1953 and a musical of a '70s novel set in 1906 as the year's best. And what is The X-Files if not a canny updating of '50s bomb sweat? "No matter how paranoid you are," the show tells us, "you're not paranoid enough...
Fitzsimmons said that the committee's overriding goal was to select the best candidates, despite recent criticism in the popular press that accuses selective colleges of filling quotas...