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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...station at Beltsville, Md., is currently working on hormones that will prevent insects from molting, or shedding their outer covering, prior to passing on to the next stage of growth, and Martin Jacobson has applied for a patent for a juvenile hormone that affects house, stable and face flies, some mosquitoes and the fire ant. Taking a different approach, Entomologist William Bowers, of the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, has isolated two substances from ageratum, a flowering plant, that interfere with an insect's production of juvenile hormones. When these antihormones are applied to immature cotton stainers and Mexican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bugs Are Coming | 7/12/1976 | See Source »

...detached from the orbiter. About ten minutes later, two rocket engines in the aeroshell will begin firing, slowing the lander to bring it out of orbit and into a descent path. Some 150 miles from the surface, traveling at more than 10,000 m.p.h., Viking will encounter the outer fringes of the Martian atmosphere and be slowed by aerodynamic drag (the aeroshell will act as a shield to absorb frictional heat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Mars: The Search Begins | 7/5/1976 | See Source »

...posted on the roof of the Kennedy House at No. 1 Broad Way suddenly noted warning signals fluttering on Staten Island. Major General Sir William Howe's invasion fleet, two weeks out of Halifax, had at last arrived in force at the entrance to New York's outer harbor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WAR: Coming Battle for New York | 7/4/1976 | See Source »

...garments I wear at the beach differ from those I wear at a wedding, yet I am the same person. Customs and outer appearances change, but the heart of the church is one and undivided in hope, faith and love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Jun. 14, 1976 | 6/14/1976 | See Source »

Despite their attractiveness, Sens. Walter Mondale and Birch Bayh just don't hold strong hands in the delegate numbers game--the latter spent $1 million for one Massachusetts delegate. Another often-mentioned vice-presidential possibility, Sen. John Glenn, of Ohio and Outer Space, is a political neophyte--something the Carter campaign abounds in--and unless the delegate situation is really desperate, constant primary bickering between Carter and Mo Udall would preclude the choice of the Arizona Congressman. And a Carter-Jerry Brown would be unbalanced in ideology and constituency which would mean sitting this one out for many Democrats...

Author: By Jon Alter, | Title: Said the King to the Peanut... | 6/1/1976 | See Source »

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