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...been hard hit. Reason: many teenagers were not exposed in childhood and thus did not develop antibodies against measles. Warns Dr. James Cherry, professor of pediatrics at the University of California in Los Angeles: "What we now have, for the first time in history, is a whole herd of older people who are not immune. I think it is a problem that will increase in magnitude...
...tickets are being distributed now, long before the June 14 event. Last year each family had to wait in line to pick up their tickets, before getting food. This is where the bottleneck developed. Koivumaki said because of the "herd instinct", entire families stood in the ticket line last year, although only one person...
...surveyed what had once been a brimming water hole but was now just mud. Said he: "That's a killer. A cow walks in looking for water and she bogs down in the mud. She gets weaker and dies." Lynch has been forced to liquidate almost half his herd of 2,000 calves and cows for lack of both water and forage or enough money to buy feed grain. He normally rotates livestock from one pasture to another as grass is consumed, but this year none of the grazing land on his 20,000-acre Lake County spread...
...Behaviorist Roger Payne and his wife Katy recorded this music of the deep and produced Songs of the Humpback Whale, which sold more than 100,000 LPs. Their second whale record contains the only recorded sounds of the elusive blue whale, as well as the latest hit by a herd of humpbacks-which, the Paynes have discovered, change their song each year. To the accompaniment of lapping waves, the whales sing sorrowful blues solos with a bassoon-like timbre or in solemn antiphonal chorus. The effect is sometimes humorous, often very beautiful. Album royalties go to the artists-through...
...fire retardant called polybrominated biphenyl (PBB) was accidentally mixed with feed, were faced with a new nightmare. Alarmed by the open sores developing on his cattle and the growing number of stillborn calves, Dairy Farmer George LeMunyon of Cedar Springs called in investigators. They discovered that cattle in his herd, and those on at least seven other farms in the state, have been ingesting a wood preservative called pentachlorophenol (PCP)-probably when the animals licked the sides of their feed bins. Because the preservative contains dioxin, a substance related to the highly toxic chemical that has made the Italian town...