Word: bug
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Rogers ran indoor and outdoor track that year and again junior year, consistently finishing strong in the half-mile. Then something happened along the banks of the Seine; and the distance running bug bit hard...
...that the distance bug has bit, Rogers will never stop running. Next time you're strolling along the Seine in Paris, keep a look out for a slim, blondponytailed figure with a light stride and a French history book under her arm; you can bet it's Becky Rogers...
...lagniappe, Blount throws in a few dozen original song lyrics, including, "He's in the driver's seat now,/ Beside him sits my wife./ And I'm just a bug on the windshield of life...
...consists of some old bromides with a few new twists. In last year's bestselling How to Prosper During the Coming Bad Years, Howard J. Ruff suggested that squirreling away,dehydrated food and storing gallons of water represented about the best investment people could make. Casey, a gold bug, advises selling everything at hand and putting up to half the proceeds into "a well-hidden hoard." He likes bullion the best, but he also favors some gold mine stocks and South African Krugerrands. He confidently predicts that gold will eventually hit at least $1,600 per oz., but fails...
...latest tactic against the fungus pits bug against bug. Plant Pathologist Gary Strobel at Montana State University has been injecting pseudomonad bacteria into infected trees: the microbes multiply and attack the fungus. Strobel's program is still in the experimental stage, but there have been some modestly promising results. In Sioux Falls, S. Dak., for instance, injections were given to 20 badly diseased trees; seven were saved...