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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...obtained a small number of pearlfish two years ago and kept some in cages in a water-covered rice field, others in test tanks. Their breeding habits were unaffected; during one two-month test, three pairs of caged pearlfish produced a total of almost 2,000 eggs. While 60% hatched under ideal laboratory conditions, as few as one-tenth of 1% of those left to dry in a simulated ricefield environment later produced fish. But even this rate, Bay calculated, is enough for a yearly population of about 38,000 fish per acre...
Aging Well. All the while, Sagan kept writing, turning out a play or novel a year, and gradually earning the respect of the French literary community. Andre Maurois, for example, wrote of her "sober, elliptical" style and her "remarkable economy of means," added sagaciously: "The tone of Sagan fits our times...
Projected Figures. Exact figures are impossible to obtain, since suicides in college are kept closely under wraps. Many are recorded as "accidents"-mainly because a suicide leaves feelings of shame and guilt among the living. Moderator Editor Philip Werdell, 25, arrived at his estimates by probing every study he could find, then discreetly burying a question about suicide in a questionnaire on psychiatric services sent to 300 colleges. He got some candid answers, projected the figures from them...
Football drills can get rather dull after a while, but Tyson kept himself alert by spending his days 40 stories high over Madison Avenue in Manhattan, doing construction work on the New York Life Building. It's the kind of work that adds creases to Yovicsin's brow...
...when they pulled themselves erect for the take-off, it was clear that Brown's film was about the sport of surfing, not the cult. He ignored the beach goings-on, the bikinied "beach bunnies," and the faked-up music; instead he kept his camera on the athletes who navigated through a sea of underwater rocks, stray boards, sharks, poisonous fish, and other surfers...