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ASIDE FROM economic factors, tropical rain forests have a scientific value that experts have yet to determine. In the forests of Gahan and Cameroon, restriction recently discovered 17 previously un described species of tree. Over three fourths of all plant species exist in tropical forests, which have been described as "genetic reservoirs." As article in the current issueof New Scientist by Mark Plotkin and Richard Schyles, director of the Harvard Botanical Museum, notes that "conservative estimates put the member of plant and animal species in rain forests at about two million of which fewer than half have ever been described...
...almost a century. Those with a taste for more recent vintages may find them in the pages of Man Bites Man, Two Decades of Satiric Art (A & W; 224 pages; $29.95) edited by Steven Heller. Although a few illustrations are pure character assassination, most are lampoons of contemporary trends. Gahan Wilson's Senators complain about environmentalists through gas masks; Ronald Searle's bird finds the sky too crowded and decides to walk; Bill Lee's pilgrims beg heaven for a sign and are rewarded with one: WELCOME TO THE NEW JERSEY TURNPIKE...
Humor, James Thurber observed, "is emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity." That at least seems to be the governing philosophy behind many of the cartoons in this year's collections. The best in this vein is Gahan Wilson's gently crafted Nuts (Marek; unpaginated; $4.95), chronicles of growing up. "You who remember how great it was to be a little kid, gang, don't remember how it was to be a little kid," warns Wilson, whose intrepid, chunky comic -strip hero survives a series of boyhood crises. Pilgrim's Regress, edited by Joel Wells (Thomas More Press...
Sick humor. That's what Paco loved, and he couldn't get enough of it. Gahan Wilson cartoons, Gary Gilmore jokes, National Lampoon raised to the nth degree--Paco took it all in and somehow managed to keep from gagging. His favorite, though, was a cartoon from Playboy or Penthouse or some other urbane excuse for a glossy fold-out with a staple in her navel. Wherever it was from, Paco didn't remember, he simply knew some friend had given it to him one night at a fund-raiser for the United Farm Workers which he attended because after...
...conclusion of his summation argument, prior to the decision, Gahan said: "Mr. Cronin is this year's target for certain groups in and around Harvard Square... This (the trial and the strike) has been a real nightmare for Mr. and Mrs. Cronin." Cronin himself had testified that the strike had cut his business by at least 65 per cent and was costing him about $11,000 a month...