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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Here are a few things to keep in mind the next time ants show up in the potato salad. The 8,800 known species of the family Formicidae make up from 10% to 15% of the world's animal biomass, the total weight of all fauna. They are the most dominant social insect in the world, found almost everywhere except in the polar regions. Ants turn more soil than earthworms; they prune, weed and police most of the earth's carrion. Among the most gregarious of creatures, they are equipped with a sophisticated chemical communications system. To appreciate the strength...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nature: Splendor in The Grass | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...contention that force was necessary to make the sanctions stick gained credibility last week. According to White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater, Iraq was getting round the prohibitions to obtain military materiel as well as supplies used in the production of chemical weapons. Other Administration officials say the countries responsible include Libya, Yemen, Taiwan and South Africa. Yemen had earlier indicated that it would live up to its reluctant promise to abide by the embargo. It did allow one Iraqi tanker to unload at the port of Aden, but in response to international pressure it later refused to allow two others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Gulf: The Center Holds - for Now | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...think so. Two or three cases will be coming to the Supreme Court. That would make ((abortion views)) off-limits as far as I'm concerned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Rudman: The Iconoclast Of Capitol Hill | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...would find a way to cut government expenditures. I don't really like living here in Washington. I didn't feel I was accomplishing anything important. But when Phil Gramm and I got together on Gramm-Rudman-Hollings in 1985, I changed my view. I thought one person could make a difference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Rudman: The Iconoclast Of Capitol Hill | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

...Critical in the sense that they make him out to be a simpleton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Warren Rudman: The Iconoclast Of Capitol Hill | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

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