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...years ago, Noel Vietmeyer, a staff director of the National Academy of Sciences, was surprised to find in a collection of reports on tropical plants one with a curious title: "Psophocarpus tetragonolobus: Crop with a Future?" Neither Vietmeyer nor any other agriculture scientist would be surprised today. For the plant, better known as "the winged bean" because of the four winglike flanges on its pod, is now regarded as a great green hope among the experts who worry about new food sources for the overpopulated and underdeveloped world...
...points out, though, scientists might take a lesson from history. When Louis XVI tried to popularize potatoes in France during the 18th century, the people refused to eat them-until he established a royal potato garden, which the peasants promptly invaded to get at the King's new crop...
...week goes by without a new Bosworth inflation alert landing on the President's desk. His memos have attacked the nation's doctors for raising their fees 50% more than the increase in the cost of living last year. He has accused farmers of asking for crop subsidies that might create double-digit food inflation next year. He has criticized Congress-and indirectly even the White House-for appearing to cave in to the farmers' demands. Bosworth has also become an effective jaw-boner. Two weeks ago. he masterminded the Administration's successful effort to prevent...
...slick could do irreparable damage to plankton and other algae. At the bottom of the ocean food chain, these simple organisms, directly or indirectly, provide sustenance -to say nothing of life-giving oxygen -for all the creatures higher up on the ladder of marine life. The Breton seaweed crop, grown for the pharmaceutical, textile and food industries, represents 90% of France's seaweed production and 75% of Europe's. This year's crop has been heavily damaged...
Then, too, the shower of new magazines (334 in 1976, 272 last year) is not much to cheer about. Most of the fledglings are small (average circulation for last year's crop: 10,000), parsimonious (typical rate: 7? a word) and narrowly focused (Sludge, Modern Drummer, Wild World of Skateboarding...