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Thus the tin-pot tyrant of the Carib bean island the buccaneers desire to free is shown to be a homosexual with decided S-M leanings. But psychopathology runs against the grain of a free, open form that numbers among its prime attractions the promise of not bothering to delve into such dark and irrelevant mat ters. Genevieve Bujold, as the high-spirited, high-born maiden with whom Rob ert Shaw, as the pirate leader, is naturally expected to carry on a fighting romance, is required to get into a duel with him. Presumably, that is something the athletic...
...fire ant. Taking a different approach, Entomologist William Bowers, of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, has isolated two substances from ageratum, a flowering plant, that interfere with an insect's production of juvenile hormones. When these antihormones are applied to immature cotton stainers and Mexican bean beetles, the insects grow into sterile adults. Colorado potato beetles treated with the chemical enter a hibernation from which they never emerge...
...suggested that okra-whose viscid green pods provide the distinctive ingredient in gumbo dishes-could become an important source of protein if cooks would use its ripe seeds as well as its tasty pods. Researchers with the National Academy of Sciences have been studying a protein-rich "winged bean" that grows in New Guinea and Southeast Asia, and believe it could be successfully introduced into other warm rainy areas where the principal crops-yams, cassava, potatoes-are low in protein. "Believe me, the plant tastes good," says Plant Geneticist Theodore Hymowitz of the University of Illinois. "The flowers taste like...
...position bluntly: "We bought it, we paid for it, we built it, and we're going to keep it." Though his analysis was weak, his rhetoric was strong, and an electorate only a couple of generations removed from the frontier and the justice of Judge Roy Bean responded instinctively...
...CASTOR BEAN (entire plant but especially seeds): burning sensation in mouth. Swallowing two or more seeds may cause serious illness or death...