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...journalists who pioneered in this direction doubted for a moment that the novelist was the reigning literary artist, now and forever," Wolfe continues in his introduction to the anthology. "They never guessed for a minute that the work they would do over the next 10 years, as journalists, would wipe out the novel as literature's main event...
Organized crime. Cocaine and marijuana sales bring drug lords more than $20 billion each year. Legalization would wipe out their major source of funds...
...Africanized honeybees. But in recent months the hum over the so-called killer bees has reached frenzied proportions. Local television stations have been running tapes from crews dispatched to Central America, showing ferocious swarms attacking researchers and news crews. Mosquito eradication units have been readied with special gear to wipe out the expected insect intruders. Several times a week, Houstonians sound the alarm, phoning pest-control agencies with the urgent and disquieting news: "They're here...
Harvard trainers also benefit by comparison with English trainers, known for their "magic sponge" treatments, English athletes say. "At home they bring out a bucket of cold water, and whatever's wrong, they wipe the spot with a sponge," soccer player Nick Gates '91 says...
...year-old businessman, Tadar El-Kebi, said he saw the hijackers going through the plane trying to wipe off their finger prints shortly after...