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...trainers hope that by turning over decision making to Iraqi officers, they will groom leaders who can hold units together and prevent desertion, a chronic malady of the new Iraqi forces. Judging from the progress made by Raouf's battalion toward pacifying Haifa Street, the strategy is bearing fruit. Since Feb. 15, when Iraqi forces took over responsibility for the area, attacks have dwindled to nothing. That is partly because of the aggressive tactics of Raouf's men. But the biggest contributor to peace in the area appears to be the shrinking presence of U.S. troops. According to sources...
...bees alarm both the bee industry and the agricultural community. In California, 21 fruit and nut crops and 20 vegetable crops, valued at about $2 billion, depend upon commercial hives for pollination. An apiary infested by the Africanized variety is much more difficult to handle and produces far less honey since these bees greedily consume most of it themselves...
...records the behavior of some Japanese friends in a Tokyo cabaret, how they "sat down with the hostesses they had been assigned and almost at once reached out for their breasts as nonchalantly as they helped themselves to fruit on the table." He observes the clownish scenes that take place each night at subway stations as impeccable railway attendants try to steer hordes of drunks toward their trains. He hears sad stories that would never have escaped without the lubricant of booze. At one bar, a fellow drinker confides that his wife is pregnant and his salary insufficient to support...
...other charm of The Making of a Public Man is the public man's unpretentious charm. The son of a Russian immigrant fruit dealer, Linowitz is among that dwindling priesthood of business executives who still believe they have a civic obligation far beyond the bottom line. "Those of us for whom the most extravagant promises of this land have become a reality are, I think, required to seek appropriate expressions of their gratitude," he says, with characteristic understatement. This book, like the life of quiet, diligent service it recounts, is an inspiring expression of that gratitude. --By Donald Morrison
Biology had its share of the agenda. Corn and garden cress seeds were tucked into soil to test the influence of microgravity on plant growth. Frog eggs were fertilized to determine if low gravity alters the development of organs responsible for balance. At one point a fruit fly escaped from its container and was quickly dubbed Willy. Later the astronauts found the ill-fated drosophila dead in a filter. Tongue in cheek, officials at Oberpfaffenhofen handed out an obituary for "our bold little astronaut...