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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Afternoon Heat. While probing differences between wild-and factory-bred flies, Zoologist Guy L. Bush and Biochemist G. Barrie Kitto of the University of Texas, with Zoologist Raymond W. Neck of the Texas parks and wildlife department, found that the larvae were kept at an unnaturally constant, warm temperature, mainly to speed up growth. Also, young flies were unable to fly around much in their cages. Eventually, the researchers write in Science, a markedly different strain emerged. No longer as vigorous, the male does not become active until the heat of afternoon, whereas his wild brethren are busy impregnating females...
Subsidized Superelegance. The vast expense of haute couture-the latest Y.S.L. collection costs at least $500,000-makes the whole notion of super-elegance for a dwindling few seem anachronistic. Nonetheless, the number of Parisian high-fashion houses still in business remains constant at 25, and the couture industry's sales increased 15% (to $1.4 billion) last year. One reason is that couture, in a Y.S.L. executive's words, is "the locomotive" for a clothing company's lucrative ready-to-wear business. Additionally, the publicity that high fashion generates for Y.S.L.-or Pierre Cardin or Dior-helps...
Their description--and the real achievement of the Cultural Revolution--takes on more meaning when they describe a factory in Shanghai, a city that comes to represent for them the most revolutionary aspects of China's experience. In Peking, the revolution has been obscured by the constant discussion of their students, who cannot seek the release of action. At the factory, the Miltons met what they consider a true product of the Cultural Revolution--a young worker who has been elected foreman, who shows little of the deference to foreigners that characterized the older management, but whose capable leadership...
...Answers. Other scientists are studying the sun to determine if its energy output is constant and if there is any link between sunspots (caused by magnetic storms on the sun's surface) and droughts, which often occur every other time the eleven-year cycle of sunspots reaches its low point. Other investigations-of ocean and atmospheric circulation, the processes of mountain building, the influence of land masses-are all pointed toward a better understanding of global climate. That understanding is sorely needed. "Our knowledge of the mechanisms of climatic change is at least as fragmentary as our data," says...
U.M.W. President Arnold Miller, already under constant attack by a rival faction in his union (TIME, May 17), is sure to suffer too. He voiced sympathy for the strikes last week. But since the wildcats were unauthorized by the union, Miller also urged the miners to "return to work on the next available shift." None of the locals paid heed. That caused a Miller aide to mourn: "Coal companies and dissident miners are going to say this shows once again that Arnold can't keep the membership in line." Both union and company officials hope the strikes will soon...