Word: ares
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That is the word being spread by Forestry Expert Michael Benge, an employee of the federal Agency for International Development, who has become a bureaucratic Johnny Appleseed for the leucaena. Benge reports that in some tropical lands, leaves from the tree are eaten like candy by children and, dipped in...
The secret of the leucaena's rapid growth is in its roots; they extend as deep as the tree is tall. That enables it to soak up nutrients below the reach of other plants. Growing on the leucaena roots are fungi called mycorrhizae that help by absorbing phosphorus compounds...
For Benge, the leucaena has held a fascination since the mid-1960s, when he learned of it on an agricultural project in Viet Nam. A prisoner of the North Vietnamese from 1968 to 1973, he returned to the U.S. and helped herald its wonders to a growing list of tropical...
The locale is Africa. Reporters are bee-swarming on the scent of deep trouble in the emergent nation of Kambawe. The dictator, President Mageeba (Clarence Williams III), is toughing it out with a rival faction. Three newshounds converge on the opulent, isolated home of Geoffrey Carson (Joseph Maher), a British...
As a principle, affirmative action has four apparently solid votes on the court, at least if Bakke and Weber are a guide: Justices Brennan, Marshall, White and Blackmun. The decisive fifth vote might depend on the particular facts of this case. Constitutional Scholar Laurence Tribe thinks this vote could be...