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After the first big outbreak, in Medford. Mass., in the late 19th century, New Englanders began battling the gypsy moth by putting out arsenic, soaking egg masses in creosote, burning down whole trees. But the bugs kept spreading. Wafted by winds, hitchhiking on cars and campers, they slowly migrated to at least 21 states, including Florida and California, although so far only pockets of serious infestation have occurred west or south of West Virginia. In the 1950s, scientists thought they finally had the moths under control with DDT. But the pesticide caused so much ecological havoc, including the death...
...bacon-and-egg breakfast with Regan, however, showed that there was less room for compromise than Rostenkowski had hoped. "What about a two-year program instead of three?" he asked. Replied Regan: "If I went to the President with that offer, I'd be fired." Rostenkowski was surprised by this hardening of the Administration's position. He pledged to work for a palatable compromise, but said, "I can't sell that 5-10-10," referring...
...call it a wave, but it has hurt two of the nation's leading newspapers. When the Washington Post had to return a Pulitzer Prize a month ago, the paper's guiding spirit, Katharine Graham, commented: "I think there is some feeling that this was an egg that would not have been laid in a lot of other places...
...passbook savings was considered to be about normal. The trouble began in the mid-1960s, when inflation rose from 1% to 5%. In 1965, when thrifts were paying up to 4¾%, a family earning the national average of $7,704 and with a nest egg of about $3,500 in the bank would have realized an annual return of about $80 after inflation and federal taxes were taken into account. By 1967 inflation and taxes had reduced the gain to zero. In the year 1970, that same average family would have lost $110; and in 1979 it would have...
...first normal meal consisted of consommé and a boiled, mashed pear, and the next day he tackled a bowl of stracciatella, a hot chicken broth with egg drops. There were clear signs last week that Pope John Paul II was on his way to recovery-and, as usual with any job he tackled, doing it robustly. Doctors at Rome's Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic removed the 26 stitches they had inserted after a would-be assassin's bullet ripped through the Pope's abdomen on May 13. The Pontiff received visitors, made brief voyages to a nearby...