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...technique for using hormone-like chemicals to attack one species of bug at a time. Working with DMF, a synthesized chemical compound that acts like a juvenile hormone, a Prague team under Biologist Karel Sláma discovered that it took just one microgram (a millionth of a gram) to sterilize for life a female linden-bug. They also found that a dose as much as 10,000 times the amount of DMF required to produce sterility would cause no other harmful effects. So they figured that a male linden-bug treated with a massive quantity of DMF might...
...synthesizes chemical exotica. The poisons are the best. Along with tornados, poisons are the most charismatic things in nature. Introduction to a great poison or a great man is the same--the pulse quickens for both "Today you will use mercuric chloride. Inhalation of two tenths of a gram of mercuric chloride dust will kill...
...purpose expletive "Phooey!" On occasion, Maddox applies it personally to irksome political critics and statehouse correspondents ("Phooey on you, phooey on you, and phooey on you!"). Last week Atlanta Attorney James H. Moore and a band of reporters hatched up their revenge with something called a "Phooey-gram," a telegram sent directly to Maddox bearing nothing save the sender's name and one word-"Phooey." Already hundreds of Phooey-grams have been wired to the capitol, and Moore plans to kick off an entire Phooey campaign, complete with Phooey buttons, Phooey bumper stickers, and even a sky writer...
...have provided the first objective article on marijuana [April 19] that I have seen in a national magazine. Pot is becoming a social phenomenon, but the lives of many are being ruined by the felony convictions incurred by the carrying or use of even one gram of pot. Additional research on pot is desperately needed. Legalization, or liberalization of the existing pot laws seems long overdue. What is required is less emotionalism and more objectivity, and quickly...
...their brains. He injected the extract into the brains of the untrained animals and found that the untrained mice began to shun darkness. The average time that members of one group spent in the dark box declined to 98 seconds when each was injected with three-tenths of a gram of extract. It went down to 67 seconds when the injection was increased to six-tenths of a gram, and to only 24 seconds when a full gram was administered. Other groups injected with extracts from the brains of rats that had been shock-trained for different intervals of time...