Word: trapping
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...death, the insects would decompose and the next rain would wash their internal cargo of long-lived pesticides and toxic metals back into the water supply. But Metcalf proposes breaking the natural cycle. Since the insects are attracted to light, they can easily be caught in standard, electrically illuminated traps. One night Metcalf captured 300,000 adult midges in a single trap. They can then be burned at high enough temperatures to break down the pesticides...
...Victory to the NLF," "Fuck the OFIEA," and "Off this capitalist death trap" were written in spray can yellow, blue, green and red, and in black crayon...
...game of world domination," American policies in Southeast Asia may appear rational. To the citizens of the empire, at home and abroad, they bring only pain and sorrow. In this respect we are reliving the history of earlier imperial systems. We have had many opportunities to escape this trap and still do today. Failure to take advantage of these opportunities, continued submission to indoctrination and indifference to the fate of others, will surely spell disaster for much of the human race...
...brother Mycroft catches me in an intellectual trap...
Equally depressing, writes Silberman, most of the reforms suggested by academics touting new courses and computers have left "the schools themselves largely unchanged"-chiefly because their proponents fall into the same trap that hobbles school staffs. "It simply never occurs to more than a handful to ask why they are doing what they are doing . . . What is mostly wrong with the public schools is mindlessness-a failure to think seriously about purposes or consequences...