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...killing more than a million sheep a year, and sheepmen are clamoring for resumption of open chemical warfare. The U.S. Department of the Interior, meanwhile, has been experimenting with more specific anticoyote tactics. In one method, sheep are outfitted with a poison-filled collar; if a coyote takes a bite, it soon bites the dust. Another device, the so-called M-44, involves a spring-loaded tube covered with bait and planted in the ground. When a coyote begins tugging at the bait, the device fires a lethal dose of cyanide into its mouth. In an attempt at aversion therapy...
...issue is so certain to rile the normally subdued Swedes as taxes. With reason. The average Swedish worker must turn over about half of his earnings to finance the cradle-to-grave welfare society, and for the self-employed the tax bite frequently exceeds 85% of income. Historian Sven Stolpe was so disgusted by his tax assessment that he threatened to burn all his unpublished manuscripts. An actor even set himself ablaze last March outside Stockholm's tax office. But most Swedes have chosen a less extreme alternative: the ballot box. In 1976 they turned out the Social Democratic...
...mainstream. It has lost rawness and vitality." Ely looks back to some of the men who put those qualities there in the first place. Jimmie Rodgers; Bob Wills, the king of western swing, who opened up country to newer, jazzier rhythms; Hank Williams, "who gave the music heart-stabbing bite." And Buddy Holly. When Ely, now 34, was growing...
Rabies is one of mankind's oldest and most feared scourges. It was known in ancient Mesopotamia, where a fine of 40 shekels of silver was levied against the owner of any dog whose bite caused a freeman's death (the rate for slaves was 15 shekels). Even today, a century after Pasteur developed the first vaccine, rabies almost always kills its victims unless they are inoculated in the earliest stages of the disease. There were no reported human deaths from rabies in the U.S. last year, thanks to prompt vaccination. But the Federal Center for Disease Control...
...wants is some good loving and a week's worth of shuteye. No such luck: Ella has baked a pie for her beau. "It took me a whole day to make it," she purrs, "So you eat all of it." With courtly resignation, Jim takes a bite. It tastes awful, but he manfully digs in. He owes Ella that much for favors received and favors anticipated...