Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Nills said that she has seen major changes in the apple growing industry since the old days. She says that now her brother has to have a license to spray pesticides and a license to make cider...
...resident of Hampshire Street reported that between 4 and 6 p.m. on Oct. 31 unknown persons spray-painted the left side of her car, which was parked in front of her residence...
...agents on a failed attempt to kill a Hamas leader, KHALED MESHAL, on a commercial street in the Jordanian capital of Amman, prompting KING HUSSEIN to threaten to sever relations. Answering the charges of recklessness, an Israeli official says that precisely to avoid embarrassing the King, Mossad chose to spray a toxin into Meshal's ear. Says the source: "The decision to act was taken based on the 100% success rate of this method, which left no fingerprints whatsoever. If they had done it in the right way, no one would have noticed." The toxin was based on the drug...
...development of genetic engineering, however, that researchers were able to build synthetic ICAM-1 convincing enough to act as a decoy. With that in hand, Dr. Turner and his team recruited 177 volunteers who were willing to catch a cold for science. Half the volunteers (the experimental group) were sprayed with the BIRR 4 solution. The others (the control group) were given a simple saline spray. All the volunteers were deliberately infected by placing droplets of active rhinoviruses in their nasal passages...
About two-thirds of the control group and half the experimental group got sick. The volunteers who received the BIRR 4 spray seven hours before they were exposed fared pretty well, often reporting only a mild case of the sniffles. Even those who waited 12 hours after exposure before taking the decoy compound experienced the same protective benefits...