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...tree trunks grew progressively blacker, however, it became easier for birds to see and prey upon the speckled variety of the peppered moth. The once-vulnerable black moth, becoming indistinguishable against the darkening bark, found it easier to survive and multiply. By 1900, black peppered moths outnumbered the speckled variety by 99 to 1. Between 1952 and 1964, in a continuing survey made near one industrial town, not a single speckled moth was found. Eventually, this example of evolutionary forces at work became standard fare in college biology courses, illustrating the adaptability of organisms to a changing environment...
...boards in front of Cambridge Trust purporting to be from a group of women who "dig NLF women." Studded with quotations from Bobby Seale and HueyNewton, it gave no particular reason for the planned action, but warned darkly that some people in the Square were attempting to prey on street culture. It asked the freaks to bring rocks, sticks, and bottles to "run in the streets" for an "outtasight night...
...word comes across like "freak." or "nigger"-"The only possible advantage in being a sailor," said Seaman Fred Eder, "is that it's maybe the only way a white can experience something of what it's like being black. In uniform, you're a marked dude. You're prey to all sorts of people trying to fuck you out of a dollar or your watch or your sanity for Christ sake. You can't eat in a good restaurant, no decent-looking chick will talk to you. Man, you find yourself on even ground with all the other outsiders-winos...
...young Maoists are mostly former farm workers from the south, embittered by city life, frustrated by assembly-line routine, and easy prey for student provocateurs, whose rallying cry is "Worker power!" Standing far to the left of Italy's established Communist Party, the mavericks spurn alliances with traditional unions, and have as their avowed aim the toppling of capitalism. While they ardently admire the Peking government, their name comes not from an official link with Red China but from their rough tactics and revolutionary chants, which resemble those once used by Chairman Mao's Red Guards. The Maoist...
Charles Halpern, one of three Washington lawyers handling the cases, adds: "The decisions offer a precedent for getting other hard pesticides off the market." Alternatives to DDT include nonpersistent pesticides, which break down faster in nature, and biological controls using insect predators to prey on pests...