Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jose, Calif., an imported-car dealer offers a cash bounty of $100 to any customer who brings in a Mediterranean fruit fly, dead or alive. The hot novelty item in San Francisco gift shops is a Medfly encased in a clear plastic apple. From Silicon Valley's computer whizzes comes a new video game called Medfly Mania: to stem a tide of electronic insects, the players must choose among competing insect-killing strategies while dealing with such all too real obstacles as bad weather, helicopter failures and the accidental release of fertile male flies...
That sort of gallows humor was just about the only relief Californians had last week from their worst agricultural crisis in years. Despite stepped-up chemical warfare, the epidemic of Mediterranean fruit flies showed no signs of waning. The creatures spread beyond the populated suburbs south of San Francisco and approached the very heartland of California's $14 billion-a-year agricultural industry, the fertile 12,000-sq.-mi. San Joaquin Valley. Repercussions were quick and far-reaching. Even as helicopters doused the lush fields and orchards with pesticide, word came from Japan, California's largest overseas agricultural...
...Angeles and in Santa Clara County, just south of San Francisco. No one knows where they came from-perhaps in contaminated fruit from Hawaii. But farmers, recalling the devastating losses from past outbreaks, immediately clamored for aerial spraying with malathion, a mild garden-variety pesticide that kills off Mediterranean fruit flies while causing no apparent harm to humans. Nonetheless, California's Governor, who plans to run for the U.S. Senate next year, refused to allow what he called a rain of chemicals on residential areas. Instead, he opted for a slower and more laborious tactic: spraying individual trees from...
...growing public interest in simulating real-life situations. Says he: "The games allow people to ask what-if questions without serious consequences." Ahl says that sales of another game, Sterl, are also doing well. Players of that one fight off an ecological disaster-like an infestation of Mediterranean fruit flies...
...wonderful life and Balmoral is one of the best places in the world," quoth she. And why not? Diana, 20, and Prince Charles, 32, had just returned from their two-week Mediterranean honeymoon aboard the royal yacht Britannia. Tanned and rosy, the newlyweds-he showing more leg than she in his Gordon Highlanders kilt-ventured down to a bridge by the River Dee on Queen Elizabeth II's Scottish estate. There they tarried for a session with about 50 photographers and reporters. Asked whether she made breakfasts fit for a King, Diana replied: "I don't eat breakfast...