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...elaborate antistyle. Not everyone is wearing a blue blazer and short hair. At the crowded Astor Place Haircutters, a few dozen blocks from the orchid-scented salon of Monsieur Marc, the walls are decorated with a cellophane-taped montage of punk haircuts: the teeth cut, the rainbow cut, the fungi cut, the oh, s&$151;-- cut ("We call it that," says Owner Enrico Vezzo, "because that's what the customer says when he looks in the mirror...
...garrets, weaving the futile passions of his country ballads. It was in these parts, too, that the mushrooms were grown, pale and fat as frog bellies, whose caretaker, after a short time shut up underground, turned as cold, as silent, as blind as those delicious fungi the masters were so fond of. One had only to venture a short distance, lamp in hand, beyond where last year's straw ticks lay rotting, to come across other networks of honeycomb cells, where the new servants, hanging up their shining liveries, their boots or aprons, after the day's work...
...these arguments. Because honeybees do not defecate during the winter or rainy seasons, he explains, a large volume of feces accumulates over these long periods. Meselson admits, however, that the origin of the toxins is not easily explained, though he noted that the poison might be produced by fungi that often grow on bee excrement. In any case, Meselson says, the bee theory "opens up the realm of natural explanations for yellow rain in a way not previously done." The problem for the Government was that with international relations at stake, there was still so much room for scientific controversy...
...biological safety officer of the EHS, Lynn Harding handles jobs ranging from monitoring research of recombinant DNA and gene-splicing to supervising the removal of micro-organisms such as bacteria, viruses, parasites and fungi from any University buildings. Harding's group implements the safety guidelines set by Harvard's bio-safety committee on genetic research, but it does not make any ethical decisions. "These issues haven't really come into play yet, but there may be a day when this will affect us." she notes...
...which has imported most of its wild mushrooms from Europe, will show off its own fungi for European statesmen at the economic summit this weekend at Williamsburg, Va. Their five meals will be based entirely on American ingredients and recipes. New York Times Food Writer Craig Claiborne (A Feast Made for Laughter), the man of all seasonings who was asked by the White House to organize the menus, has concocted a dish of boneless chicken legs and thighs stuffed with chopped chicken liver, wild rice and morels sauteed in butter. The mushrooms may even come from Mesick...