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...Campbell W. McMillan and Dr. William R. Purcell in the New England Journal of Medicine, is the caterpillar that grows into one of the flannel moths, Megalopyge opercularis. Country folk use so many other names that they have confused the issue. In North Carolina it is usually the "woolly slug," in Texas it is often "woolly worm," and in between it may be the puss caterpillar, possum bug, or Italian asp. In Mexico it becomes el perrito, or little dog. By any name, it stings...
...Viet Cong shifted their sights, began socking bullets into the helicopter. A steel-jacketed slug snapped through the Plexiglas, and Kelly slumped over the controls. The Huey crashed and rolled over, injuring the rest of the crewmen. Somehow they managed to pull the major from the wreckage, and went to work on Kelly's wound. It was in vain, for he was shot through the heart-the 149th American to die in action...
...found later among Oswald's effects. Serial number records showed that Oswald's was the same rifle that had been found in the warehouse. An autopsy on Kennedy's body produced one bullet that matched the gun. On the floor of the Lincoln, a second matching slug was found. The third was retrieved from the stretcher that carried Kennedy. Ballistic tests proved that Oswald's gun fired the fatal bullets. Oswald's palm prints were found on book cartons near the window, on the wrapping paper that was used for the "window shades...
...onus of freedom is choice. Courses of Instruction for Harvard and Radcliffe offers a 379-page slug of freedom, and an agonizing burden of choice. The courses fundamental to a field--Economics 1, English 10, Mathematics 1--are prominent enough. Hence the CRIMSON oneirocritic takes it upon himself to point out the less obvious, but not really recondite, courses which might interest people concentrating in other fields...
...says, "we have reared 105 species, and every one we have found is either a snail killer or a slug killer." Some of the larvae will kill only one particular species of snail; others eagerly attack almost any snail up to 19 times their own weight. Many scio-myzids are death for two of the three types of snails that carry schistosomiasis. The third snail host, prevalent in Formosa and the Philippines, has a limestone trap door inside its shell that mangles the attacking larva...