Word: wormed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From both "a worm's-eye view and a bird's-eye view" is how Chaim Herzog, former Israeli president and United Nations ambassador, described, during a book-signing ceremony at The Coop yesterday, his unique perspective on international events...
...these sweet mixes of cunning and convention throughout The Long Kiss Goodnight, a sleepy title for a swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side--her own macho twin--and uses it against those who made her what...
...title for a swell turbo-thriller about a teacher with amnesia who was once a CIA assassin, the 'Long Kiss Goodnight' is a sweet mix of cunning and convention. If you shrug off a few silly touches (villains who shoot everyone else dead but leave star Geena Davis to worm her way out of trouble) and an underwear-and-underwater torture scene out of some lurid comic book, you can enjoy a clever tale of a woman who discovers her hidden violent side and uses it against those who made her what she was. Like the heroine, the movie...
This much is known: the disease is carried by a microscopic protozoan called Myxobolus cerebralis, whose spores are released when infected fish die. These spores are not in themselves harmful to trout. It is only after they have been ingested by inch-long Tubifex worms in the mud that the parasites become dangerous. In the worm's gut, the protozoan takes a new form: grappling-hook-shaped spore cases that when released from the worm, can invade the gills and skin of tiny rainbow fry. The infection eats away at the cartilage of young trout, leaving them deformed, discolored...
...that turn out to be useless." Since drugs sometimes arrive poorly labeled, often in a foreign language, errors do occur. Three years ago, 11 Lithuanian women were temporarily blinded by an improperly marked drug that local doctors thought was for a gynecological complaint. It turned out to be veterinary worm medicine...