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There are occasional outbreaks on college campuses, recently including North Carolina State at Raleigh, Siena and C.W. Post colleges in New York, Bradley University in Illinois, Kent State in Ohio and Texas Tech in Lubbock. The probable reason: students received vaccine made before 1980, when a lack of stabilizing ingredients sometimes caused vaccine to lose its potency...
...founded a nonprofit organization called For Spacious Skies and had begun publishing a 32-page guide for teachers, outlining ways in which the sky can stimulate learning. Since then, 17,000 copies have been scooped up, and "sky awareness" has entered curriculums in school districts from Lubbock, Texas, to Wausau...
...third threat is a strain of fire ant called Solenopsis invicta that was discovered this year in northern Alabama, northern Mississippi and Oklahoma. Until now the insects, which first entered the U.S. five decades ago, had been confined to a warm-weather belt between Lubbock, Texas and Beaufort, N.C. Invicta has managed to make a different but equally menacing adaptation. The species has begun nesting in supercolonies, insect megalopolises that contain 10 million to 20 million ants. Says Clifford Lofgren of the USDA'S Agricultural Research Service: "Larger colonies eat crops such as soybeans, potatoes and other vegetables. They have...
...lean Chianina was developed at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and is expected to be in Texas supermarkets in late summer. It has 25% less fat and 36% fewer calories than ordinary beef, although the cholesterol content is not significantly lower. Chianina is a descendant of a breed raised in the Chiana Valley of Italy since Roman times. Cooked as directed, the rather pale meat with slightly yellowish fat was virtually tasteless except for slight acidic overtones. Most successful was the steak, pan-grilled and served very rare. What little fat there was in Chianina cuts had an unpleasant waxy...
...record for more than the minute it takes him to walk across the White House lawn to his helicopter. Unlike the past, President Reagan could not pass off the big holes in his political safety net with accusations of press persecution, or silly anecdotes about the woman in Lubbock, Texas, who used her $10 food stamps to buy grain alcohol...