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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kerr, a Brazilian geneticist in the state of Sāo Paulo, decided to breed the perfect honey-producing bee. He wanted to combine the best attributes of the hard-working but highly aggressive African bee (Apis mellifera adansonii) with gentler but lazier European strains. Before the hybridization could occur, 26 swarms of African bees accidentally escaped, mated with native bees, flourished and spread. The offspring, known as Brazilian honey bees, are precisely what Kerr wanted to avoid; they have inherited none of the redeeming qualities of European bees, while keeping the African strain's viciousness and wanderlust...
...nuclear power plants safe? For years tha Atomic Energy Commission has insisted that they are. For one thing, the AEC argues, the plants are equipped with so many redundant safety devices that any conceivable accident simply could not occur. For another, they are designed to the most rigorous specifications of any peacetime industry. But evidence has recently accumulated aht the AEC's position is not as secure as it sounds. The commission held extensive hearings at Bethesda, Md., to allow nuclear critics, who represented a coalition of 60 citizen groups, to dispute the effectiveness of a safety device called...
...fear. They Portuguese secret police, known as the DGS or General Directorate of Security, has an omnipresent influence. The very fact that the DGS is so active and widespread is to some extent a measure of anti-Portuguese sentiment. In the cities, roundups of dissident intellectuals and political organizers occur every few months. The DGS works through a network of agents and informers, as often as not black African, induced to volunteer through financial psychological pressure...
...contract with the union by firing his staff after agreeing in May that no changes in employee status would occur until a final contract had been negotiated. No contract had been settled when the sale was announced...
...Homer Thornberry. As time goes on, reflection on the former's abdication from the Court and the latter's forgotten nomination will become all the more painful. For now, one can only hope that a turnover in November will bring new perspective to Court nominations, should a vacancy occur. And further that those reporters who now face the choice of imprisonment or incrimination of their sources will, in the true spirit of the Constitution choose the former...