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...starving. Two devil-merchants come, offering gold to the poor people for their souls--which seems rather a good idea to most of the peasants, but horrifies the local patron, The Countess Cathleen. She, just returning to her estate after a many year's absence, promptly sends away for grain and cattle for the starving peasants. The devils, who see their lovely valley-full of souls slipping away, steal Cathleen's fortune of gold and tell her that her grain and cattle ships have been lost; she therefore signs away her own (immensely pure and valuable) soul to save...
...Heyneman studies all the variations of tapeworm life, but most of his professional time goes to Hymenolepsis nana, the dwarf mouse tapeworm that infects between 1% and 2% of the population of U.S. Southern states. Its intermediate host is the flour beetle, which may be ground with grain and eaten by humans. It can also be carried to man by mouse droppings that get into the food. A person infected by H. nana soon develops immunity, ejects the established worms and does not acquire new ones for several years at least. Dr. Heyneman hopes to discover the mechanism of this...
...operation at a Vienna hospital in 1951. Now 63, Ana Pauker ("who frequented all the right beds in her time and once had a direct phone line to Stalin") still lives in her luxurious apartment in Bucharest, comforted by large doses of tranquilizers (evipan) and morphine (regular 1½-grain doses administered by state doctors). Ana Pauker lost power in Stalin's anti-Semitic campaign, but, unlike 250 Zionist leaders still in Rumanian jails, says Dr. Cohen, escaped prison because she placed diaries full of compromising details in a place of safekeeping in Switzerland with instructions that they...
...Sahara. Our civilization is the civilization of the Sahara. Our religion is the religion of the Sahara." Then, to excited thousands, he delivers his message: "The battle for the Sahara has begun. We must win it. I proclaim that we will be traitors if we lose one single grain of Sahara sand...
Worse than crop damage is the annoyance. Their mounds, thickly set in hay or grain fields, damage mowing and harvesting machines. They get into fodder and sting the cattle that try to eat it or the humans that handle it. In places where they are thick, farmers cannot get laborers to work in the fields. In suburbs they pock lawns with their mounds, bite children playing on the grass...