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...nutshell, the Phillies can beat you in any one of several ways. Besides the right-handed power, Garber & Co. in the bullpen, the spray-hitting and Carlton, the Easterners have the best bench in baseball, one of the better defenses, and more base-stealing threats than...
...Diving Competition: Unlike diving you're likely to see at the IAB, the purpose of this rainy day event is to stay out of the pool or rather the spray from passing taxi cabs and MBTA buses. Catch this action up close by Burr Hall as vehicles take the turn into Quincy Street leaving wakes up to eight feet...
...protection, for example, explains the shape of San Francisco's Embarcadero Fountain, designed by Canadian Sculptor Armand Vaillancourt. Its writhing concrete contours have been described as "Stonehenge unhinged with plumbing troubles," but the fountain splashes no passerby. It is, however, laced with "lily pad" walks that offer a spray-drenched way, daring visitors to walk beneath its eccentric geometry...
...recently as 15 years ago, health authorities were confident that they were well on the way to the total conquest of malaria. The dread disease, which afflicted as many as 300 million people at a time in the 1940s, was being swept away by the clouds of DDT spray that killed the malaria-transmitting Anopheles mosquitoes. Now, in Asia, Africa and Latin America, malaria is again on the rampage; the number of cases around the world has risen to an estimated 120 million...
...northern Argentina in South America, the Pan American Health Organization (a branch of WHO), UNICEF and the U.S. Agency for International Development had cooperated with national governments in financing a massive extermination operation. In hundreds of yellow-painted Jeeps and trucks equipped with tanks of insecticides, crews traveled everywhere, spraying pools of stagnant water, obvious breeding areas for mosquitoes. Helmeted personnel entered millions of houses and shacks to spray the walls, on the rationale that the oily DDT residue would knock out any disease-carrying mosquito that alighted there.* The campaign succeeded so well that malaria was reduced in many...