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...state entomologist at the Shade Tree Laboratory Field Station in Waltham suggested that a commercial preparation of the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis might keep the moth population down for several years while the natural predators re-establish themselves. This particular biological control has recently halted the cabbage looper and fruit cankerworm, but it has not been tried against the ivy moth...
...hundred feet all, with ten-inch-long needles. They are the oldest trees with the longest roots. In a sense, they hold the forest together. After a forest fire, grass begins to grow, which is soon replaced by bushes, like mountain mahogany and thimbleberry. Fast growing poplar trees shade out the bushes, like quaking aspens. After about a hundred years, the coniferous forest again dominates the area. Ponderosas are the ones that hold the soil to the land...
...working. In English as spoken in white Appalachia, there are three -I work, I am working, I a' working. In black Appalachian dialect, there are five-I work, I am working, I be working, I a' working, I be a' working-and each has a different shade of meaning...
Once little Merilee saw an animal kicked. And swore on the spot never to kick an animal. Now the vow has been betrayed. Dear Alfred. She is writing him a letter. In this heat even rattle snakes entwine in the shade of a cactus. And on torrid desert updrafts eagles cushion themselves for making eggs fertile. But we humans were not meant for such comforts. Longings we may have, sensations that alone we are incomplete. Organs for coupling and mouths for communication. But pity us, old Alfred. We are, finally, not built for it. Togethered, humans lose their selves, forget...
...lucky for the poor man's overtaxed heart that Merilee and Sam had decided to have their prenuptial breakfast in the palmy shade at his old lady's refreshment stand, where he could rest and have his wife churn him a cooling drink in her blender...