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SCIENCE CENTER--The architectural atrocity is not modeled after a spider, or a lunar module, or any manner of unidentifiable creatures from outer space. It is actually an enlarged facsimile of a Polaroid Land Camera, honoring the man who donated a fortune to build the science center. A rare breed of benefactor, Land asked that the monstrosity not bear his name, so that no one could identify him as the donor...
...Spider Weaves...
High cheek bones, an unplaceable accent and a general air of je ne sais quoi added up to just the "weird, transparent quality" Director Lewis Gilbert was looking for. That's why Barbara Bach, 27, a sometime actress in grade-B Italian movies like Spider with the Black Stomach, won her first starring role in the tenth James Bond film. Bach considers Bond "a male chauvinist pig who uses girls to shield him against bullets." But she rather likes her liberated-woman role in The Spy Who Loved Me: Anya, a major in the Soviet secret service. Actor Roger...
...ever smaller return from its investment. In California, which uses an estimated 5% of all pesticides employed worldwide, some crop losses have actually increased, in part, because pesticides frequently kill off the beneficial bugs that help keep pests under control. Prior to the introduction of insecticides, for example, spider mites were relatively insignificant pests in California. But now that spraying has killed off their natural enemies, their attacks have increased; the mites now cost the state's agricultural industry more than $116 million a year, five times what they cost 15 years ago. The rising prices of pesticides are also...
...Some Aspenites contend that Claudine's tart tongue and aloofness had made her an outsider among the resort's regulars. Not long ago, Sabich reportedly told a close friend that their relationship was at a crucial point. "It's either going to end," the friend quoted Spider as saying, "or we'll be married within a year." Rumors were flying in Aspen last week that the skier had been considering ordering her and her three children out of his house-and his life...