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That is, if some of this summer's crop of high school students congregating yesterday in Harvard Yard are to be believed...
...areas combined. But oyster catches, which produced an astonishing 120 million Ibs. of meat annually in the 19th century, stabilized at about one-sixth that level some 20 years ago. In 1982-83 the tonnage dropped even further when a mysterious and fatal disease called MSX ravaged the crop...
Throughout his 35-year teaching career and during his 15-year residence in the remote regions of the Amazon jungle--including some regions which are accessible only by plane or boat--he has pioneered several areas: rubber plant studies, crop development, narcotics and orchid study. He has also identified, classified and conducted experiments with approximately 24,000 plant species. In all, he has brought back to Harvard more than 48,000 varieties of plants from areas ranging from Mexico to Afghanistan...
...another area of his work, he has extensively studied the "domestication of new crop plants," which means he is attempting to discover methods of growing certain plants which here particularly useful and valuable yields...
Many faculty members feel that the current crop of presidential candidates is rather uninspiring. "Hart is still a bit of an unknown, but a good alternative," says Elaine M. Kistiakowsky, assistant to the dean for national security at the School of Public Health. "He seems not to have satisfied everyone, yet Mondale is not a terrible person," she adds. "Mondale fails to excite people. I worked for Mo Udall a few years ago and there was a lot more enthusiasm then...