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...This bengn little Lepidopteran was not known to be a pest anywhere else in the world," commented Carroll M. Williams, Bussey Professor of Biology...
...French naturalist in Medford imported some gypsy moths for a breeding experiment. A few of the moths escaped, and the species had become ? severe pest by the turn of the century. The caterpillars completely defoliated Cambridge's trees, and most of Harvard's elms died, only to be replaced by more elms...
...adding just one alien component to a delicate balance, man sometimes triggers a series of dangerous changes. Nature immediately tries to restore the balance?and often overreacts. When farmers wipe out one pest with powerful chemicals, they may soon find their crops afflicted with six pests that are resistant to the chemicals. Worse, the impact of a pesticide like DDT can be vastly magnified in food chains. Thus DDT kills insect-eating birds that normally control the pests that now destroy the farmers' crops. The "domino theory" is clearly applicable to the environment...
Friedman, a 57-year-old economics professor at the University of Chicago, is still regarded by critics as a pixie or a pest, but he has reached the scholar's pinnacle: leadership of a whole school of economic thought. It is called the "Chicago school," and its growing band of followers argues that money supply is by far the most important and fastest-acting of the economic regulators at the Government's disposal. Friedman has succeeded in persuading many leading economists to adopt his monetary theories, at least in part...
Counterattacking, Nobel-prizewinning Novelist Mikhail Sholokhov, a master of vivid invective, last week likened Solzhenitsyn to a noxious plant pest. At a meeting of 4,500 Soviet farmers at the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, the author of And Quiet Flows the Don drew a parallel between literature and collective farming in Russia. "We also have bumper and lean years," he said, "but you farmers have done away with pests, while we, unfortunately, still have Colorado beetles-those who eat Soviet bread but who want to serve Western bourgeois masters and send their works there through secret channels. Soviet...