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When the passenger (not dressed in special clothing) is lying on the sled-head foremost-he can take only seven Gs for Moth of a second without being damaged. If he is lying feet foremost, he can stand as much as 32 Gs because the feet can take more impact than the head. When his body is at right angles to the motion of the sled, he can survive even more...
...very abundance of modern insecticides often defeats their purpose, and trigger-happy spray gun wielders can do more harm than good. By way of example, said the University of California's A. E. Michelbacher, the practice of dousing walnut trees with DDT to control the codling moth has resulted in plagues of frosted scale and spider mites, organisms which might normally have graced a few codling moths' dinner tables...
Last week Paula laid away his formal clothes in moth balls. The white-haired old dynamo had run down; he was going back to the land, to the pioneer moshave of Sde Boker in the Negeb, Israel's desert frontier, to live in a three-room wooden hut and resume his study of classical and Renaissance philosophy. Paula was not too enthusiastic about renouncing city life, but planned to resume her old occupation and become the colony's nurse...
...size of the budget is not only unfair but wholly unrealistic . . . We are aware that "nobody wants to end or to impair the merit system," but in view of the tenor of the piece as a whole, its derogation of career employees, its repetition of some of the most moth-eaten of the spoilsmen's cliches, such a qualification loses any real meaning or force. Virtually every attack on the merit system in history has been advanced under the cover of pious protestations. But when those attacks have succeeded -as they sometimes do when public vigilance falters-the real...
...spectacularly unheroic. In his private life he is a drab roue, and his public life is just as futile. Against his better judgment, he gets involved in a grandiose piece of foolishness known as "the Collateral Campaign," which is intended to honor the Emperor on his joth Jubilee. The moth-eaten dynastic symbols behind this campaign do not delude Ulrich, but he hangs on from morbid curiosity...