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Like the condemned man of the anecdote, most Americans still recoil instinctively from any kind of mushroom that is not snow white, cellophane wrapped and supermarket sanitized. In the past few years, however, the succulent edible fungi that grow wild for the picking in almost every part of the country have found ever increasing acceptance in restaurant and home menus. At Dean & DeLuca, a Manhattan gourmet emporium that sells up to 100 Ibs. of fresh domestic wild mushrooms a week, Produce Purchasing Manager Lee Grimsbo notes, "People are beginning to think of them as a cooking item rather than something...
...1960s, Borobudur's foundation was so badly weakened that the entire structure was in danger of collapse. Some of the balustrades were listing as much as 11° because the artificial hill on which the temple sits had settled. Algae, fungi and lichens were eating away at porous stone, obliterating the exquisite carvings...
Pfister, currently an associate of Winthrop House, has also worked with the Freshman Outdoor Program, and as a host for incoming freshmen. An expert in mycology--the study of fungi. Pfister came to the University as an assistant professor in 1974 and received tenure...
Severe immunological vulnerability poses some tricky medical problems. "Specific infections can be treated," says Internist Henry Masur of New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, "but the person will usually just come down with another infection two months later." Masur has seen homosexual patients be sieged by bacteria, fungi and offbeat viruses, all in quick succession. "Why this group has something suddenly wrong with its immunity is a mystery...
...Ehrlich's case histories really back up their hypothetical arguments. They call attention to the diversity of organisms: "A gram of fertile agricultural soil has yielded over 30,000 one-celled animals, 50,000 algae, 400,000 fungi, and over 2.5 billion bacteria." Yet they fail to show how man is currently destroying his own food basket. They note briefly that other civilizations, like those in the Tigris and Euphrates valleys, could not maintain their irrigation systems properly and withered away with their crops. But history, no matter how harrowing, does not always parallel the present. The potential catastrophes that...