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That hope springs from at least two major scientific efforts to develop elms more resistant to Dutch elm disease. Within the next two years, the National Arboretum in Washington will distribute to nurseries several new varieties of elms that are less vulnerable to the Dutch elm disease fungus. Researchers believe that the new elms will be able to thrive even in the polluted conditions found in many cities...
Manufactured by Fujisawa Pharmaceutical of Osaka, FK-506 is derived from a soil fungus found in Japan. Starzl first learned of the drug in 1986 at a meeting in Helsinki. Other researchers had dismissed it because in studies using dogs it caused severe bleeding and other problems. But Starzl believed the reaction occurred in dogs alone and undertook a graduated series of experiments on several other animals, from rats to baboons. These tests were encouraging, and in February 1989 Starzl tried the drug on Robin Ford, a 26- year-old secretary who was in danger of rejecting her third liver...
...weather has prevented the germination of a fungus that kills the locusts' eggs, enabling two particularly harmful species to hatch in overwhelming numbers. Since spring the hungry hordes have infested thousands of acres in 36 counties, chewing up wheat, corn, sugar beets and soybeans. Normally, fewer than ten locusts occupy the average square yard of land; crop damage begins when the number rises to about 30. This summer some Minnesota fields are aswarm with as many as 1,200 hoppers per sq. yd. Fields in the worst areas look as if they had been struck by hailstones...
Though the raid is a success, the skin shop is open again in a matter of hours. That doesn't faze Hurlbut, who has lost his share of go-rounds with crafty defense lawyers. He'll simply try again. "Sex shops are like fungus," he says. "If we don't apply the antibiotic, they'll sprout again anywhere." For Hurlbut, the medicine involves marshaling public awareness and applying legal pressure. "We're not on a moral crusade," he insists. "The porn people are folks like you and me, trying to make a living. We just want them to obey...
...language of the local Bribri Indians). "We probably wouldn't still be farming if it wasn't for these guys," admits Bryant. Anai provided him with new kinds of crops, including vanilla plants and a different variety of cacao tree, which is less likely to die from fungus. Over the past five years, Anai has brought dozens of new varieties of cash crops to more than 20 communities in the Talamanca region, set up plant nurseries serving 1,500 people, and helped establish a 10,000-hectare wildlife refuge...