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...weather has prevented the germination of a fungus that kills the locusts' eggs, enabling two particularly harmful species to hatch in overwhelming numbers. Since spring the hungry hordes have infested thousands of acres in 36 counties, chewing up wheat, corn, sugar beets and soybeans. Normally, fewer than ten locusts occupy the average square yard of land; crop damage begins when the number rises to about 30. This summer some Minnesota fields are aswarm with as many as 1,200 hoppers per sq. yd. Fields in the worst areas look as if they had been struck by hailstones...
...been present in the U.S. during the demolition of 326 missiles, and Americans have witnessed the destruction of 1,088 Soviet missiles. More than two dozen Americans stationed permanently in Votkinsk, west of the Urals, keep tabs on a plant that once built SS-20 missiles, and a similar number of Soviets in Magna, Utah, monitor what was formerly a Pershing engine plant. Michael Krepon, a Washington arms-control expert, talks of "a degree of verification unthinkable just a couple of years...
...opportunity to work with a program with so many sports and on the competitive level of the Ivy League," Bonang said, "the opportunity to work with John [Veneziano] and a chance to live in a big city like Boston are a number of circumstances which add up to a very positive situation...
When asked if his store was selling an unusually high number of fans, Dickson's Hardware manager Edward Santamaria said, "I don't know. I'm not down here...
Therefore, administrators say, if a sufficient number of students do not show interest in a course, it would use a disproportionate amount of FAS financial support to continue...