Word: authority
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fear of AIDS, of course, centers on questions about its transmission. On the medical front last week, researchers at the Pasteur Institute in Paris announced that traces of the AIDS virus have been found in the genes of more than 50 varieties of insects from Africa. The report's author, Jean-Claude Chermann, rushed to assure the public that insects almost certainly pose no threat to humans, but a trigger-happy French press jumped to its own conclusions. MOSQUITOES COULD TRANSMIT AIDS VIRUS, headlined France- Soir...
...wealth of the tall grass prairie was its undoing," writes Author John Madson, of Godfrey, Ill., in Where the Sky Began, his evocative story of the fecund heartland. Nearly a year's production of corn lies unused in bins and warehouses. A quarter of a year of soybeans is stored up. The Western plains are piled with a year's worth of surplus wheat. The harvest of the new wheat crop is almost finished, and it is a whopper: 2.2 billion bu. Providence seems to be pushing us toward some rendezvous with disaster. The Corn Belt is like John Bunyan...
...first problem is where to put it. All across "corndom," as Author E.J. Kahn Jr. likes to call it, there is a frantic search for storage space. In Dubuque they will use caves. On the Missouri River, they will tie up barges and stuff them. The Behlen Mfg. Co., in Columbus, Neb., which makes metal bins, has increased its work force from 350 to 750. Marion Havens, of Greenfield, Iowa, who assembles bins, is working triple his usual pace, rooting a new one every fourth day in some field. They point toward the blue sky like truncated missiles. If only...
...sort of place where Author George Plimpton remembers Classmate Bobby Kennedy's "coming to parties with a book under his arm, going off to a corner and ignoring the din and chaos as he read." It is the kind of place too where a visiting student, Edward Lewis, now president of St. Mary's College of Maryland, recalls a lecture given by Professor Paul Tillich that ended with 800 students rising to applaud the theologian. Says Lewis: "That's earned mystique...
...author of "Nuclear Ethics," cautioned proponents of unilateral disarmament that "the premature abolition of nuclear weapons" would destabilize the world situation and could lead to an unregulated arms race or even a nuclear showdown...