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Natural gibberellin governs the growth and reproductive activity of plants, stimulating cells to divide and expand. Farmers cultivate a certain type of fungus to produce large quantities of the chemical. The use the extract to spur agricultural production and produce oversized fruits and vegetables...
...beyond the limits of the human world, without any sign of common sense or logic. In this way the work will draw nearer to dream and to the mind of a child." The tilted, exaggerated perspectives of De Chirico's pre-1920 paintings, their dry meridional light (he could extract more mystery from the harsh hour of noon than most people could find in midnight) and their sense of theatrical expectation, like the hush that precedes the raising of the curtain, gave his work a superbly irrational quality...
...this must be understood in the West if we are to help. The successful dissident movement, as in Poland, is continually riding a tiger--pushing the regime hard enough to extract comcessions, but not so hard as to provoke repression. And in most countries there is no immediate prospect of overthrowing the regime, or even of achieving Dubcek's "Communism with a human face." If Carter and Brezinski really wish to aid the cause of human rights, they must be continually aware and finely tuned to the complex pattern of national realities in Eastern Europe. Rhetoric must be backed...
...April, 1977. The Department of Energy, White House lobbyists, and senators like Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.) have all taken a hand at trying to force the bill through Congress. They claim that higher prices will promote development of new gas sources, and allow producers to extract already-discovered gas which is currently too expensive to bring up from the ground. New gas supplies will replace imported oil as a major energy resource, the argument runs, easing the U.S. balance of payments deficit and making Americans less dependent on foreign energy sources...
...their occupation." Fighting was supposed to be conducted according to the chivalric code, but actually it was a business, entered into for the purposes of seizing loot, capturing prisoners to ransom, securing bribes in return for mercy shown, and, it would seem, as an excuse to extract additional taxes. Yet the levying mechanism of the emerging nation-state was still not refined. In Paris, for example, heralds on horseback would announce yet another impost, then gallop for their lives. Violent revolts by commoners troubled both France and England...