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Lately its appetite has become alarming. Once a relatively rare nocturnal predator, the crown-of-thorns suddenly began proliferating in the South Pacific a decade ago. Since then it has laid waste to 100 sq. mi. of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest and most impressive collection of underwater coral formations. It has also destroyed nearly 22 miles of Guam's coral barrier. Marine biologists report similar starfish damage off Saipan, Fiji and the western Solomons. In only five years, says Oceanographer R. D. Gaul of San Diego's Westinghouse Ocean Research Laboratory...
Truth Squad. While Bernadette was making the heady round of U.S. cities, a sullen quiet prevailed back home. British Tommies still served as an efficient barrier between the Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast and Londonderry. Home Secretary James Callaghan flew over from London. On his arrival, he said: "I'm not here to dictate to the Northern Ireland government. I've come here to help." To a crowd in Catholic Bogside, however, Callaghan said: "I am not neutral. I am on the side of all those who are deprived of justice and freedom. I will apply myself...
Paul Burkholder, 66, who is now at the University of Puerto Rico and works in a laboratory at Mayagüez, also serves as senior marine scientist for Lederle Laboratories. Some of his antibacterial finds have come from sponges collected from as far away as Australia's Great Barrier Reef and Palau in the Caroline Islands. When he arrived in Rhode Island last week, he had scarcely dried off from a scuba-diving, sponge-hunting expedition on the outermost edge of the Caribbean, between the British islands of Virgin Gorda and Anegada. Burkholder made his dives with an assistant...
...chairs; of cancer; in Palm Springs, Calif. Mrs. Bunker was 65 when she earned her pilot's license; a year later she took off on the first of three transcontinental solo flights ("Motoring just isn't safe enough," she explained) and at 71 rode through the sound barrier in an Air Force F-100F Super Sabre. Two years ago, she even applied to be an astronaut. "I could have done it," she insisted after NASA turned her down...
...concerned with inflation would accept. Unemployment is now 3.6%, 2,592,000 people. If the rate were to rise 1%, 858,000 more workers would be jobless. To place even half of these unemployed in public service could cost the Government up to $3 billion. Ideology is an equal barrier. Presidential Adviser Arthur Burns shies away from the concept, both on the ground of economy and because it rasps uncomfortably against his conservative principles...