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Major Advance? What, precisely, had Peking wrought? Nothing more than Western intelligence sources had predicted all along: the Chinese have built a short-range nuclear missile. The Chinese bomb last week was a 20-kiloton device, about the same size as the Hiroshima bomb and considerably less powerful than the...
The problem of the mountain men has been centuries in the making. Primitive aborigines who wear loincloths and worship ghosts, they are descended from natives who occupied the Indo-Chinese peninsula long before the Chinese-related Vietnamese moved south some 1,700 years ago. The Vietnamese took over the rice...
Scouring the Israeli countryside for four years, he collected 2,350 samples, inoculated them with rusts and put them through rugged environmental tests in hothouses and in the fields. The most promising 100 samples were sent to the U.S. Agriculture Department; along with 4,000 resistant selections from other countries...
Rugged IR-8. Marcos has taken the first steps toward defining and defeating these problems. His new Four-Year Plan, which won $21 million worth of support from Washington last month, envisions self-sufficiency in rice and corn production by 1969. His expedients: a combination of improved irrigation systems and...
Today, well over 1,000 falconers in the Western world still practice the ancient sport, and in parts of Asia and Africa it is still a basic means of gathering food. The eagles are the biggest (up to 15 lbs.) and most powerful birds of prey. A brace of trained...