Word: rice
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dust particles were 4.6 billion years old -the apparent age of the moon itself -most of the rocks were about 1 billion years younger. How could there be such a huge age gap between material picked up only a few feet apart? "This is a major puzzle," says Rice University Geologist Dieter Heymann. One small rock fragment, though, was considerably older than the others: 4.44 billion years. Caltech Geologist G. J. Wasserburg, who calculated its age, believes that still older rocks dating back to the very creation of the moon will probably be found in the unexplored lunar highlands...
Agnew remained cautious and rather stiff as he attended the inauguration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, chatted with South Korean Prime Minister Chung II Kwon, and carried out such ceremonial chores as laying wreaths, visiting an experimental rice farm, and dispensing the latest U.S. diplomatic lagniappe to friendly heads of state: tiny pieces of moon rock...
...economic progress. Since 1967, he has succeeded in reducing the inflation rate from an appalling 650% a year to roughly 7%, a performance described as "highly remarkable" by Indonesia's major creditors when they met in Amsterdam last month to approve a $600 million loan. The price of rice, a basic indicator, has remained relatively steady, but corruption remains a serious obstacle. "Nothing has really changed," says an American with long experience in the country, "except that the army...
Listen to the rice when the wind...
...spraying programs in Vietnam also use tacodylie acid, a drying agent that causes rice to wither and drop before harvest, picalinic acid, and possibly two soil sterilizes, Meselson said...