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Wellesley police are seeking vandals who spray-painted racist and anti-Semitic messages on buildings, streets and cars throughout this Boston suburb before dawn Sunday morning...
After an embarrassing false start, during which workers futilely hand scrubbed individual rocks, Exxon refined some techniques that show promise for future oil-spill cleanups. The omni-sweep, a spray nozzle at the end of a 100- ft.-long mechanical arm, allowed workers to hose steep shorelines that were otherwise inaccessible. High-temperature, high-pressure rinses proved moderately effective in scouring oil-fouled rocky beaches, but they killed intertidal creatures such as barnacles and snails. Coast Guard Captain David Zawadzki compares the process with chemotherapy...
...fears often bring windfall business, as the manufacturers of sun block and condoms can attest. This season the booming product is insect repellent. The near hysteria over tick-borne Lyme disease, along with a proliferation of other buzzing pests because of wet weather, has sent the sales of bug spray and lotion rising at double-digit rates...
Besides boosting products ranging from S.C. Johnson's best-selling OFF! to New Hampshire-made Ben's 100 lotion, the mania has also encouraged new entries. Florida-based Eclipse Laboratories seized upon the potential profits by introducing Tick Garde. The bug spray contains DEET, or diethylmetatoluamide, the same active ingredient found in many standard repellents, but the product's name appeals directly to the latest fears. The 6-oz. blue-and-white-colored cans cost $7.95, almost double the price of other sprays; yet in just a little over three months consumers have snapped up more than...
...paddle in a wave pool the size of 2 1/2 football fields, which sports computer-controlled water chambers that empty out in a torrent of 4-ft. waves simulating ocean surf. High above on Mount May Day teeters a replica of a wrecked fishing boat that periodically spouts a spray of water. In keeping with the typhoon motif, one artfully ramshackle building has a motorboat impaled on the roof...