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Take, Thomas suggests, the case of the nudibranch (a sea slug) and the medusa (a jellyfish) that live in the Bay of Naples. The slug lives with a tiny fragment of the medusa permanently and parasitically attached near its mouth. The vestigial jellyfish apparently is still able to reproduce; its offspring swim off and become normal adult jellyfish. The slug also produces larvae, but these are rather quickly trapped and subsumed by the new jellyfish. Aha, one would think, the jellyfish are getting back at the slugs for prior mutilations. No such thing. "Soon the snails," Thomas writes, "undigested...
Where the uranium slug has been dumped...
...taut; eyes, direct, alert. But when we approached the camp he stood tallow beside the iron of his father, his beard combed so, his eyes on the servant, never on me. I was not prepared for the courteous awkwardness of his hands on my robe, his lips like a slug. He loved me with the cowed need of an abused child...
TIME should bone up on its ballistics. The "tiny" .22-cal. one-ounce slug referred to in your story, "New Mafia Killer: A Silenced .22" [April 18], actually weighs in at approximately 40 grains or one-twelfth of an ounce. One-ounce slugs are usually reserved for the largest of African game and are not made for the bore of a .22 caliber...
Popping Noise. The FBI has no idea whom Bompensiero telephoned that night, but they know one of his callers fingered him for execution. The old man was an easy target. As he walked away from the phone booth toward his home, he was dropped by a .22-cal. slug that entered his neck near the spine. The coup de grâce was a second shot near the right ear. No shots were heard...