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...soil, and at other times when the grasshopper is vulnerable to attack by ants, it noisily emits from openings in its thorax a foul-smelling, brownish froth that halts predator ants in their tracks. To find out why the liquid is so effective, the scientists, led by Biologist Thomas Eisner, extracted it from several hundred grasshoppers and analyzed its contents. In addition to quinones, phenols, terpenes and other chemicals that are often used in insect warfare, they found an unexpected ingredient: 2,5-dichlorophenol, a derivative of a man-made herbicide...
Economist Robert Eisner of Northwestern University calculates that the Viet Nam conflict has already cost the nation $219 billion...
Direct war expenditures accounted for $113 billion. In terms of production lost because young men went into service or stayed in school to avoid the draft, the civilian economy lost another $82.5 billion, by Eisner's estimate. The human cost of the dead and wounded is incalculable; the economic drain, in terms of demand and production that will never be realized, is calculated by Eisner at $23.1 billion...
Since 1965, Eisner figures that real corporate profits, adjusted for the war-fueled inflation, declined by 17%. He calculates that soaring prices also have caused the real average income of the U.S. production worker to dip by about 2% in the past five years. 'This loss in income," says Eisner, "must be a major factor in working-class malaise and tension...
...Heil" and Farewell. The same tragic cycle occurred in Bavaria. There a relative moderate, Kurt Eisner, seized power in a bloodless coup in November 1918. A Jewish drama critic who was far from being a thoroughgoing revolutionary, Eisner forbade terrorism. He even tried to practice absolutely open politics and diplomacy; all cables and memoranda, for instance, were left on display on his desk. The only thing he nationalized was the theater, mainly to ensure that parts would be equitably distributed among actors. When he felt his popularity slipping, he staged a spectacular at the Munich opera house. Bruno Walter, then...