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...female pasture mosquito (Aëdes nigromaculus). Though it does not transmit diseases to man, the creature is a vicious stinger and travels in swarms as dense as 2,000,000 per acre in Southern California. In parts of the San Joaquin Valley, the pests are so thick at dawn and dusk-their feeding times-that people hardly dare step outdoors. Because of the insects, schools at times have been closed, farm workers have refused to tend crops, and dairy cows, stung on their udders, have produced no milk...
...battle for Amman began at 4:30 a.m. Sept. 17, with armored cars of the Jordanian army hammering at an unfinished apartment block outside the hotel. We drifted down to the lobby and listened to Amman radio. As dawn rolled gently over the dry, brown hills around us, we could see tanks firing and armored cars speeding through the city. The air became filled with the sound of breaking glass and whistling bullets. The hotel, it turned out, was in the crossfire of opposing troops...
...being invited to private bashes for my two old heroes, and you must here understand that in Cambridge parties are serious matters, indeed. False rumors made the rounds that I had poisoned Styron through dropping LSD into his Scotch; another popular lie ran that Mailer had engaged in pre-dawn fisticuffs with this one or that. Styron, following his sobering experience, has initiated no further contact; Mailer wrote a note apologizing for "my tongue sticking to my mouth," and alluded to a subpar performance when I next saw him in New York. (These were exactly the opposite reactions I might...
Assuming that the shot had come from the N.C.C.F. headquarters, police immediately planned a raid on the clapboard house. They alerted newsmen, then sent some 100 steel-helmeted officers to assault the building shortly after dawn. Shots of unknown origin were heard, and police opened fire with automatic rifles and shotguns. Some of the ammunition was powerful enough to rip through three rooms and emerge from the building's opposite wall. Police caught return fire, some from the building, other shots apparently from elsewhere in the project. The besieged were presumably saved from death or injury by sandbags they...
Radioisotopes have come a long way since the dawn of the atomic age. In the first years of nuclear medicine, they could be made only at atomic energy centers, and had to be shipped long distances to hospitals. To remain effective, they had to have longer half-lives, which meant that their radioactivity persisted in the bodies of patients. The newer, short-lived isotopes can be made in cyclotrons scattered across the country. They can be used within hours or even minutes of their production...