Bug busters
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A Scottish health authority opted for a charity-sponsored bug-busting policy as a new attempt to address headlice infestations. The campaign promotes the use of a systematic combing procedure to break the headlice life-cycle. Schools finance the purchase of materials, including an information leaflet and a bug-busting comb, which all families in the school receive on bug-busting day. Parents, responding to a questionnaire, revealed their enthusiasm for a campaign which did not promote the use of a chemical approach and which reduced the stigma associated with headlice.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 1997
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The non-literal, non-gluteal, semi-referential, off-standard, synecdochic, supermetonymic, paradoxical, existential, ever-loving ass
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The word 'ass' is used in many popular expressions with different linguistic and rhetorical properties, and with varied cultural functions. The different uses of the word form a progression from hyperbolic exaggeration and general intensifier that emphasizes an expression, through a synecdoche when it is a substitute for the body, to a metonomy and intensification where it connotes a person's entire existential being.
Publication Name: Journal of Popular Culture
Subject: Sociology and social work
ISSN: 0022-3840
Year: 1992
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Wave of the future
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High school-sophomore Stephen Barton built the 'Sub-Lime' human-powered submarine and won a prize in the Second International Submarine Races in Riviera Beach, FL. The submarine had a top speed of 2.18 knots.
Publication Name: Boys' Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 0006-8608
Year: 1992
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