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...problem. Now roughly a century after that flight of poetic fancy, clover and, indeed, a host of other crops have been laced with a chemical pesticide that may threaten the blissful honeybee with extinction. The culprit is methyl parathion, which has been used to combat pests like the boll weevil, scourge of the cotton fields. But methyl parathion is highly dangerous stuff. Only a dab will penetrate the skin, attack the nervous system and kill humans as well as insects...
...such optimistic reports and the South's positive record on compliance -notwithstanding the boll weevil's pace in many districts-have obfuscated some problems that the South still faces. As Journalist John Egerton writes in a report for the Southern Regional Council: "The South's report card in school desegregation is better than the North's but by no means outstanding. School desegregation in the South is in the main an unfinished task...
Corn borers and rootworms are attacking crops in the Midwest corn belt at a prodigious rate, and the boll weevil?between crop loss and control measures?annually costs U.S. farmers...
...argument, voiced by officials, that West Germany's proximity to the Communist bloc states requires special internal vigilance. Nonetheless, most Germans also argue that the radicals' decree has imposed too high a price by encouraging prying by authorities and conformity by job applicants. Leftist Nobel Laureate Heinrich Boll deplores the "new generation of hypocrites, toadies, opportunists, cowards and intimidated individuals who possibly will be more obedient than the Hitler Youth." The Social Democratic leadership now wishes that it had never heard of the measure, and has sponsored new, more liberal guidelines. Admits a chastened Brandt: "I erred...
...Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (from Heinrich Boll novel...