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...foods hog ever larger portions of all Americans' diets--one reason we spend just a tenth of our incomes on food today, compared with a fifth in 1950. But a pound of lean steak costs a lot more than a pound of hot dogs. "The stomach is a dumb organ," says J. Larry Brown, director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty in Waltham, Mass. "It doesn't know anything about quality. It knows only when it's full...
...dying act, an adult female cicada creates the next generation, laying 400 to 600 eggs inside a slender tree branch by cutting small slits in it with her ovipositor, an organ that works like a saw. Six to 10 weeks later, the eggs hatch, and nymphs fall to the ground...
After hitting the ground, the nymphs munch on grass roots and then tunnel down about 12 in. (30 cm) to feed on tree sap by attaching a strawlike organ to the roots. There the wingless bugs stay--for 17 years...
Austin, 60, met Eck, 58, professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, at an organ recital in Memorial Church, while they were both finishing up their graduate work...
...undergraduate, Moulton played the organ at Memorial Church and was an active member of the campus congregation...