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Light from a single, well-defined source holds such a strong attraction for night-flying moths that a flickering candle flame can lure them to a fiery death. But when light comes from all angles, as in a brightly lit room or outdoors during daylight, some moths cease all activity, as if they had been "turned off." Scientists have long wondered: What throws the switch...
Pugnacious Forager. After studying five mature walking catfish, Biologists Vernon Ogilvie and Robert Goodrick issued an alarming report. The fish can jump 4 ft. out of water and move overland at will. It sleeps during daylight hours but becomes "very active" at night or when it is disturbed. It is so strong and slippery that it is virtually impossible to handle. One specimen, placed in a 70-gal. tank with other fish, promptly attacked and killed a fish of equal size. "All other fish in the tank gave the Clarias a wide berth," the scientists noted, "a piranha being...
Three Widows. Next morning came the news that the family had feared. At 1:44 a.m., Pacific Daylight Time, Bobby Kennedy had died under the eyes of his wife, his brother, his sisters Pat and Jean and his sister-in-law Jackie...
Such uses of liquid crystals' electro-optical potential could be applied soon to a whole new generation of sports scoreboards, traffic-control signs, stock-market tickers, and instrument panels in cars and aircraft. Besides drawing very little power, the devices would work perfectly well in ordinary daylight, since liquid crystals reflect external light rather than produce their own. In the more distant future is a liquid-crystal TV screen. The entire television set, say the RCA researchers, not only would be as thin as a book, but could be watched even in the glaring light of a sun-drenched...
...least once this year, the lbis was treated as ignominiously as a common pigeon, stolen from the 'Poonies only to be casually reclaimed in broad daylight, without a single shot being fired, as it sat, unguarded, in the bourgeois sedan in a Plympton Street parking lot. Though amazingly few remember it, there was a time, not long ago, when lives hung on such events and kidnappings, international politics, and bloody threats would be in the air when the lbis flapped its wings...