Word: wheelings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fluttering above a crowded football stadium in Corvallis, Ore., two male tussock moths, ignoring thousands of fans, make a beeline, so to speak, toward Gary Daterman and begin circling his head. Other moths are continually drawn to the steering wheel of Daterman's auto, his clothing and almost anything he touches. In fact, Daterman has become irresistible to moths during the mating season. Their infatuation with him is a hazard of his job: to devise cunning new forms of biological warfare against insects (TIME cover, July...
...Cambridge late at night (I haven't stopped, though), and a good time to stop flirting with danger when I cross streets around the Square (I haven't stopped that, either). As I walked, the tow truck passed me, dragging the battered Volkswagen. There was wet blood on the wheel...
Whenever he can, Herman Murrah, 41, a wiry Mississippi conservation officer, climbs into his four-wheel-drive truck and follows the raised sand road that runs westward from the small community of Buzzard's Roost into the Pascagoula Tract, a 32,000-acre expanse of hardwood forest and bottom land straddling a 35-mile stretch of Mississippi's Pascagoula River. There he enjoys basking in the primeval beauty of one of the state's last unspoiled areas. White-tailed deer, black bears and game birds abound in the forested region, fish thrive in its sandy-shored oxbow...
...second lap, a rear wheel fell off Lauda's car and he skidded into a guardrail. His car burst into flames, searing his lungs with intense heat and poisonous flames from the volatile fuel. Unable to trigger the car's fire extinguisher, Lauda lay trapped while three fellow drivers struggled to free him. His face and head were badly burned and disfigured, the oxygen count in his blood fell below the level necessary, in theory at least, to sustain life...
...years ago, students were content to lock their bikes with the not-very-reliable combination of chain and padlock. But thefts mushroomed along with the ten-speed bicycle craze, and students began removing their front wheel when they parked, buying heavier and heavier chains, and eventually looking for totally new kinds of locks...