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...Unfortunately, by a curious botanical twist, a staple of their diet, the arrow bamboo, is now undergoing one of its periodic blossomings. When this happens, once every 45 or 50 years, a whole mountainside of bamboo may erupt in flowers, scatter seeds and then perish. The bamboo will regrow in a few years to sufficient size (perhaps 3 ft. high) to provide fresh food for the pandas. Meanwhile, they must scramble for other food...
...potential crop for this year and last were severely damaged. Brazil's production plunged from 22.2 million bags of coffee in the 1975-76 crop year to 6.4 million bags last year, a 70% drop, while world demand remained about the same. It will take until 1979 to regrow the trees into yielders of the red berries that contain green coffee beans...
...would suspect that the acreage had been stripped. In contrast with those areas, which are well watered, much of the West's coal lands get less than 10 inches of rainfall a year. Experts from the National Academy of Sciences doubt that fragile desert vegetation will regrow on such dry earth after it has been disturbed by mining, no matter how much money is spent...
...nature's miracles, few have intrigued scientists more than the phenomenon of regeneration. The lowly starfish can regrow any missing parts and may even produce an entire creature from a single arm; the salamander can regenerate much of its body. Higher animals, however, lack this ability. Mammals cannot replace a missing tail or internal organs. In man, skin and bone regrowth comes closest to the true regenerative process...
...gaudiest working mufti, agitate his pelvis as of yore ("If I stand still, I'm dead") and "never abandon rock 'n' roll as long as people keep appreciatin' it." But Army rigors had at least one benign effect upon him: he won't regrow his crazy sideburns...