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When Farber traded in his coach's whistle for law school casebooks in June, Harvard hired Wayne Lem as his replacement. Lem comes to Harvard with 10 years of experience at Boston College under his belt. While at B.C., Lem built up a strong volleyball program--and he expects to do no less at Harvard...
...then the Soviets put Nicholas Daniloff in an isolation cell, took away his shoelaces and belt, and told him he might be charged with espionage. The Moscow veterans dusted off their copies of the Soviet criminal code and looked up Article 65. Espionage committed by a foreigner, it says, "shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a term of seven to 15 years with confiscation of property, with or without additional exile for a term of two to five years, or by death." The situation seems a little less funny than it used...
...They drove him to Lefortovo, Moscow's infamous maximum-security prison, where they opened the envelope and announced that it contained photographs and maps marked TOP SECRET. After an interrogation in which the KGB agents demanded to know whom he was "really" working for, Daniloff was stripped of his belt and shoelaces and placed in an 8-ft. by 10-ft. "isolator" cell. Though American reporters in Moscow have been harassed, arrested and expelled in the past, not since Joseph Stalin's time has a correspondent spent a night in a Soviet prison...
...third threat is a strain of fire ant called Solenopsis invicta that was discovered this year in northern Alabama, northern Mississippi and Oklahoma. Until now the insects, which first entered the U.S. five decades ago, had been confined to a warm-weather belt between Lubbock, Texas and Beaufort, N.C. Invicta has managed to make a different but equally menacing adaptation. The species has begun nesting in supercolonies, insect megalopolises that contain 10 million to 20 million ants. Says Clifford Lofgren of the USDA'S Agricultural Research Service: "Larger colonies eat crops such as soybeans, potatoes and other vegetables. They have...
...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's idyllic Beulah -- or a dark Gehenna. Corn is king in the U.S., a $25 billion business that occupies one-quarter of the nation's cropland. This year's crop will be 8.3 billion bu., the second highest in history. In the corn country, half...