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...both North and South Korea, rainfall is almost entirely confined to July and August. The heavy concentration of rainfall is welcomed in the wide, southern valleys, which contain three times as much rice paddy land as the North, and where two crops a year of rice, barley, wheat or rye are harvested. Heart of the South is Seoul, which lies among granite hills overlooking the lordly Han River. The Japanese built wide avenues and modern buildings in Seoul's westernized center, but most of the city's side streets are unpaved alleys bordered by drab wooden shops. Even...
...driving toward the plant in his 1937 Ford sedan; it was his first day of work as dishwasher in the plant cafeteria. With him was Victor McDaniel, a cafeteria counterman. When McGinnis reached the union's roadblocks, he swung off the road and skittered across a field of rye. Rifles and shotguns roared from the embankment. "The noise was awful," said McGinnis. "We heard the bullets hitting and then my neck went numb." There were 47 holes in the right side of the car. McDaniel, struck twice in the head and also in a thigh, arm and ankle, somehow...
...Mettle. In Troy, N.Y., Justice O'Connor suspended Robert Banks's sentence for public intoxication after the defendant confessed to drinking a concoction he called "scrap iron": a blend of sherry, rye and corn liquor...
Academician Trofim D. Lysenko, ideological shepherd of Soviet geneticists, announced last week in Izvestia that Soviet agrobiologists can turn wheat into rye. All they have to do is plant wheat in places where the climate is tough for it. In a spasm of self-preservation, wrote Lysenko solemnly, the wheat turns into rye...
Wheat and rye are only superficially similar; they belong to different genera of the grass family. Non-Soviet geneticists believe (on the basis of thousands of experiments) that to make one turn into the other would be as difficult as making a cat give birth to puppies. But such Westerners are neglecting a new factor in genetics: the miracle-passing powers of Joseph Stalin...