Word: decadesâ
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Dates: during 1976-1976
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This gloomy view of man's perennial adversaries was written 60 years ago by U.S. Entomologist S.A. Forbes, but his modern counterparts would be hard pressed to find fault with it today. Despite mind-boggling advances in science and technology over the past several decades???the harnessing of nuclear energy, the mastery of space flight, the breaking of the genetic code?humankind has made little progress in its age-old battle with bugs. For a brief time after World War II, newly developed chemical pesticides gave scientists hope that the ultimate weapon against insects had been developed. Indeed, the bugs...
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