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Aware that the less attractive Siberian elm is highly resistant to Dutch elm disease, scientists have long attempted to mate it with its American cousin in an effort to produce offspring both disease-resistant and beautiful. Their efforts have been fruitless so far, probably because Siberian elm cells have only half the number of heredity-bearing chromosomes found in the cells of their American cousins. To make the elms compatible, two retired Department of Agriculture scientists, Geneticist Haig Dermen, 71, and Plant Pathologist Curtis May, 70, decided to experiment with colchicine-an antigout drug that has a peculiar effect...
...pebbled beaches, plump bikinied women and soft Mediterranean climate. Five hours by plane from Moscow are the ancient Asian cities of Tashkent, Samarkand and Bukhara, with beautiful mosques and colorful bazaars. Northeast of them lies AlmaAta, a 20-year-old planned city that is the capital of Kazakhstan. The Siberian scientific center of Novosibirsk was opened to foreigners last year and tourists who wish to go farther out can go on to Irkutsk (8 hours from Moscow). There they can visit Lake Baikal, the world's deepest. One taste of its pure waters, and one will thirst for them...
...cocktail party): Did you know that in the same year Sigmund Freud wrote The Psychology of Everyday Life-1901-the Trans-Siberian Railway reached Port Arthur, W. Normann discovered the process for hardening liquid fats, the British Academy was founded, Walt Disney was born, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec died...
...nation had suffered more terribly than Czarist Russia as World War I entered its third year in 1917. It was not only the estimated 6,000,000 Russian dead and wounded in the trenches. At home, the winter had been cruelly severe even by Siberian standards. Russia's rickety railroads were no longer able to funnel sufficient food into the cities, and bread lines in the capital of Petrograd (now Leningrad) grew longer each day. The orgies and intrigues of the Czarina's mad mystic Rasputin had riven Nicholas II's court. It was in this chill...
...these substances are still known only to relatively primitive peoples whose cultures are being bulldozed away by developing countries. The "psychoactive" substances under study ranged from amanita muscaria to yagé, from snuffs to enemas. They extend from the Andes across Polynesia to the East Indies, from the Siberian valley of the Yenisei to Hindu Kush and the Mediterranean. Among the most discussed...