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Harvard is focusing on the Red Raiders' tailback-fullback tandem of Jamal Patterson and Daymon Smith. The two's combined average of 146 yards per game should make it a gritty contest, especially if the weather is poor as is predicted...
Ends Ryan Moore, Dale Bartley and Darrell Oliveirs as well as tackle Brian Groody are a solid base to build a defense on. Linebacker Dave Patterson was an All-Ivy first-teamer and defensive back Tom Dudwig had seven interceptions--three against Harvard--last season...
Cartoonist Lynn Johnston, creator of the strip, notes that when Farley died she portrayed the Patterson family as being devastated, even though none of them cried. Johnston assumed that readers, when shown the different family members in various forms of grief, would feel their sadness. "There is more to the family's grief than I have space to show," she explains. She has received more than 500 letters about Farley's death...
...habitat as well. And while the moisture-loving insects can't spread westward through arid reaches of West Texas on their own, they don't have to. Fire ants have been known to hitch rides on truckloads of produce, nursery stock and even industrial chemicals. According to Richard Patterson, a U.S. Department of Agriculture entomologist based at the University of Florida, infestations of fire ants have been found in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon and Washington...
Still worried about the pesticides' impact on the environment, government scientists think they may have a better answer to the fire-ant menace. Patterson's lab at the Agriculture Department is studying a tiny parasitic fly that lays its eggs right on the fire ant's body. The fly maggots then eat their way into the ant's head and eventually sever the head from the body. Best of all, the fly seems to attack only fire ants. If laboratory and field tests show that the fly is indeed safe to use, says Patterson, the natural ant killer could...