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...should anyone care about the land mollusk, or even the Southern bald eagle? Because, as ecologists keep repeating, all species are interrelated in the biological pyramid. Destroying one can adversely affect many others. A prime example is Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which is being eaten away by starfish. Some scientists speculate that the ecological balance was upset when man began to remove their natural predators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Vanishing Wildlife | 6/8/1970 | See Source »

...persistent "cost-push inflation." Excess demand at last has been wrung out of the economy, he believes, but prices are being pushed up now by excessive union wage demands. In a sense, this means past inflation is causing present inflation; union men are angry that past price increases have eaten up their previous pay gains, and they are pressing for extraordinary boosts to catch up and protect themselves against still more price increases in the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Economy: Crisis of Confidence | 6/1/1970 | See Source »

Yesterday's picketing lasted for one hour, during which none of those participating in the hearings approached the student line. Instead, they had arrived earlier in the morning and had eaten breakfast in Holyoke Center, according to James Q. Wilson, chairman...

Author: By M. DAVID Landau, | Title: Obstructive Pickets Fail To Prevent CRR Hearings | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...considered by U.S. officers to be the best of the Communist divisions. Bold Lancer, which involved a brigade of the U.S. 25th Infantry Division, fell behind schedule almost immediately. When the troops arrived at the Cambodian town of Tasuos, an enemy rest and training area, they found half-eaten meals and abandoned NVA rucksacks and mess kits, but no NVA. OPERATION PACIFY WEST ONE, directed at Base Area 702 in the densely foliaged Central Highlands. It was from this sanctuary that the Communists masterminded a host of battles, including the recent assaults on camps at Bu Prang...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: In Search of an Elusive Foe | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

Egged on by all the activity, one Carr Mill lad has compiled a list of 60 puns containing the word egg (eggsperiment, eggshausted, eggcetera). Others are learning egg statistics (record number of eggs eaten at one sitting: 47) and making a large model of the egg of the extinct elephant bird. Says Headmaster Appleton: "In this school, it is eggs with everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: An Eggalitarian Education | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

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