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...ancient Hebrews, the grain rust that so often attacked their crops was nothing less than God's punishment for their sins. The Romans, who knew the same agricultural scourge, placed a special god in charge of it and prayed to him for mercy. In King Lear, Shakespeare blamed rust's presence on a "foul fiend" named Flibbertigibbet. Whatever its origin, the fungus is still thriving; its red, yellow and orange splotches on stems and leaves cause a grain-crop loss of hundreds of millions of dollars every year. And every time that modern agronomists breed a resistant grain...
...collections and distribute it to his poor friends and relations; as a result, graft and corruption are still the Manila way of life. Nor did the Americans break up the vast estates of the principalia, the Filipino elite; peasants today still pay up to 30% of their crop to absentee landlords, and the rest often goes to local loan sharks. By granting free tariffs to Philippine producers of sugar, lumber and hemp, the U.S. reinforced a backward primary-product economy; today, a major irritant between Washington and Manila is the Laurel-Langley Trade Agreement of 1956, which perpetuates that error...
Many shadow school courses concentrate on the kind of thing that is likely to crop up in afterhours student talk, such as psychedelic drugs. Others, however, attempt to fill a genuine gap in the official university curriculum. At Cornell, where there is no religion department, undergraduates plan to offer a class in the "Death of God Theology," and Moslem students will teach Islamic culture. One Cornell professor has even signed up for a student-taught course in jazz-something unavailable at the university's own music school. At Dartmouth a fraternity is organizing a shadow school class...
...being built as the hub of the five-year plan's aim of boosting passenger-car output from 200,000 to 800,000 by 1970. Other consumer durables, from TV sets to washing machines, are also targeted for production in greatly increased quantities. One thing the record grain crop will do is give many Russian farmers extra rubles to buy them...
...agricultural scientist, the world's exploding population combines with its dwindling food supply to pose a twofold problem: how to increase the crop yield on existing farmland, and how to make use of acreage previously considered uncultivable. In the Philip pines, Rockefeller Foundation scientists have successfully tackled the first part of the problem by developing a short, stiff rice plant that may increase the average yield of each crop as much as 800%. Planted in test plots alongside the standard brand, the new rice rises in lush plants that make its old-fashioned cousin look like a victim...