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...spooky rhythms on a piano, and 19-year-old Peter Serkin spares not an ounce of vigorous intensity. But not all of the album's music is composed of harsh explosions of frenetic percussion; the "night music" in the Third Concerto was inspired by the bird and insect sounds of Asheville, N.C., where Bartok sketched out the music during a visit in 1944. Conductor Seiji Ozawa, 31, matches Serkin's youthful sympathy with Bartok's still-new ideas...
After 70% of Israel's hybrid corn crop withered away in 1958, the Israeli Ministry of Agriculture, suspecting that the disease was spread by an insect, called on Harpaz for aid. By 1959 Harpaz had discovered that the corn blight -which he straightforwardly named Rough Dwarf Maize Disease-was caused by a virus. Coping proved more difficult...
Carroll M. Williams, Bussey Professor of Biology, has been awarded the George Ledlie Prize for his research on insect development...
Williams' best-known research project has resulted in the development of a powerful new insecticide. While studying the juvenile hormone which controls the maturing of an insect, Williams discovered that if this hormone is present at the time of maturation, the insect's normal growth process is thrown off balance. The insect then usually dies...
...Williams and other researchers discovered a substance in American pulp paper that has the same effect on one type of insect as the juvenile hormone. They traced the substance back to the trees used to manufacture paper...