Word: silkworms
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...stationed outside the gulf. The Navy ships will probably escort small convoys of three or four Kuwaiti tankers through the gulf every ten days or so. The danger spot for U.S. vessels will be the 40- to 60-mile- wide Strait of Hormuz, where Iran has deployed Chinese-made Silkworm missiles...
...attack, the Administration seemed as eager to blame Iran as it was to forgive Iraq. Reagan called Iran the "villain in the piece." While the Iranians were not directly involved in the incident, they have upped the stakes in the gulf war in recent months by installing Chinese-made Silkworm missiles near the Strait of Hormuz. Last week the Iranian government gloated over the Stark catastrophe. "The great Satan is trapped," exulted Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi. "The Persian Gulf is not a safe place for the superpowers, and it is not in their interest to enter these quicksands...
While the Reagan administration weighs options for protecting oil tankers in the Persian Gulf, China, in a potentially explosive move, has shipped a second delivery of Silkworm antiship missiles to Iran...
...harmless enough: a brownish, multilegged strip of fur with telltale pairs of red and blue spots running down its back. But looks are deceptive. Ever since 1869, when it was inadvertently turned loose in Massachusetts by a misguided French naturalist who wanted to cross the European gypsy with the silkworm to produce a disease-resistant hybrid that would eat virtually anything, it has been munching its way across the Northeast. As many as 30,000 caterpillars can infest a single tree, and each of them can consume five or ten small leaves a day. They seem especially partial...
Infection, of course, can occur whenever a microbe-laden foreign object is inserted into the body. Indeed, early I.U.D.s, made of a variety of materials ranging from glass, ivory, gold, or ebony to diamond-studded platinum and even silkworm gut, caused so many complications that they soon fell out of favor. But in the 1960s, with the availability of antibiotics and the development of new plastics that made insertion easier, I.U.D.s proliferated. That trend increased when unexpected side effects were discovered from the popular contraceptive pills...