Any Termites at the Top?
PARIS -- Death and political disappearance have been the two ways of changing post-Stalin Russia's power structure and the two most dramatic instances were those of Beria and Khrushchev. Beria was...
View ArticleBattling Ants and Termites; Home Repair Clinic
(Last week's column was devoted to the problems encountered in dealing with various types of household insect pests, and how to combat them; this week concludes with pointers on how to deal with two...
View ArticleLetters to the Editor; Clean Air: The Revised Blueprint The Citizens on...
To the Editor: Your editorials "Stonewalling Clean Air" (June 25) and "Retreat on Air Pollution" (June 26) attack the city and state governments for allegedly ignoring the plan for reducing auto...
View ArticleWatkins a Champion at the Lectern; Lira Catches 'Termititis' Aiming for Three...
Termite Watkins, a professional boxer from Houston, was saved by the school bell yesterday at Junior High School 17 on West 48th Street.
View ArticlePESTICIDE STILL CANCER RISK DESPITE CAUTION, U.S. SAYS
LEAD: A new study by the Environmental Protection Agency has found that chlordane, a pesticide used in millions of homes to control termites, can pose a high risk of cancer even when properly used.
View ArticleYOUR HOME; Termites? Use a Modem
WHILE on line with her computer one recent evening, Sheri Garrett, a homeowner from Fayetteville, Ohio, came across an electronic cry for help from a woman in Springfield, Va., who had suddenly...
View ArticleYOUR HOME;Coming to Terms With Termites
IF you look closely at the floor of your patio, you might see the gossamer remnants of their once-in-a-lifetime nuptial flight. And if you listen closely, very closely, to the beams in your basement...
View ArticleIn Africa, Making Offices Out of an Anthill
AFRICA owes its termite mounds a lot. Prospectors mine them, looking for specks of gold carried up from hundreds of feet below. Africans building mud huts love them, because the grainy soil inside is...
View ArticleTermites Thrive After a Mild Winter; Professional Pest Fighters Are Busy,...
The telephone calls Walter Schroeder takes as executive director of the Long Island Pest Control Association are often of the urgent, frantic variety. ''I tell them right away,'' Mr. Schroeder said in...
View ArticleOBSERVATORY
From Microscope to Pen Researchers at Northwestern University have performed a bit of alchemy in the lab: turning a precision analytical instrument, an atomic force microscope, into a precision...
View ArticleYour Home; Ending Invasions Of Termites
ACCORDING to some estimates, termites have been nibbling away at wood on the earth for at least 100 million years. For most of that time, of course, few complaints were registered. As soon as people...
View ArticleOLYMPICS; From Bugs to Boxing, a Termite's Impact on Iraq
His name is Termite and he came to Iraq to kill bugs. Instead, he works in a gym down the road from where bombs go off and policemen get shot, honing a different sort of violence.
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WHERE WE LIVE; The House Calls
Buying for love? It helps to have an inspector take a coldhearted look.
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ON a Sunday morning earlier this month, Dave Zappulla was inspecting the 1920's Craftsman colonial home of Ginny and Jim Stewart in Manasquan, N.J. ''This house once had extensive termite damage,''...
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E Pluribus Unum
An astonishing account of the intricate and unexpected swarm intelligence of wasps, bees, ants and termites.
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