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Besides investigating hormonal insecticides, the group is also screening some 76 compounds for "anti-hor-mone" activity...
...expedition that stum bled on the river of insecticide was Harvard Biologist Carroll M. Williams, 50. Recently Williams has been work ing with hormones that are secreted by insects to permit and regulate growth and maturation from egg to larva to pupa to adult. If insect juvenile hor mone comes in contact with larvae at the wrong stage of development, the in sects will not mature. When insects at later stages are treated with growth hor mone, they are killed by developing at too rapid a rate. Moreover, Williams .and other researchers have discovered that lethal equivalents of these...
After stating his request, Pope Paul inspired speculation that he himself might retire when he reaches 75. He made a pilgrimage to the castle of Fu-mone, near Rome, where Celestine V lived upon quitting the papacy in 1294 -an exemplar of a Pope who retired. Dante condemned Celestine's abdication as an act of cowardice and relegated him to the antechamber of hell. Paul chicled Dante and enigmatically went on to praise Celestine, both for accepting the papacy against his will and for stepping down when he realized that he was not equal to the task...
...some of the old laws might be said, from a dour point of view, to contribute to modern decadence. Among them: repeal of a prohibition (1579) against "gamyng and playing, passing to tavernis and ail-houses and wilfull remaning fra [away from] the paroche kirk in tyme of ser-mone or prayers on Sonday...
...mendicant has since done pretty well for himself. By arranging loans and credits of $1.05 billion from such friends as the U.S. and the International Mone tary Fund, by cutting back luxury imports and pushing bargain-priced exports, and by slapping surcharges on tariffs at a time when most other nations are lowering theirs, Canada has done a considerable job of turning its economy around. Totting up accounts. Trade and Commerce Minister George Hees cited evidence as cheerful as his salesman's smile...