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...President of Sierra Leone's creation of a "Medal of the Mosquito" [May 21] because the pest kept the white man from permanently settling in his country prompts me to remind him that the mosquito quite happily infected white and black. It was the hated white man, however, who brought the cure for malaria to Sierra Leone and indeed to all of Africa. This cure was enjoyed by blacks as well...
Although the interpretation of "significant" remains to be thrashed out, the decision was a far-reaching achievement for the Sierra Club and three other groups, which brought the suit against the Environmental Protection Agency...
Paul Brooks, L.H.D., director of the Sierra Club. [He] helped educate millions who would otherwise define birds as pigeons, flowers as dandelions, and wildlife as rats...
...loathing of Black African nations for the white-supremacist enclave of Rhodesia has often been stated-but never quite so bitingly as it was last week when tiny Sierra Leone announced its first list of national awards and honors. A spokesman for President Siaka Stevens, recalling that the country's 19th century nickname was "the white man's grave" because of Sierra Leone's hordes of malaria-bearing mosquitos, said that among the honors would be a Medal of the Mosquito, for conspicuous gallantry. Why? Because the vicious little pests prevented white men from permanently settling...
...hammers, wedges or fire to split the irreplaceable sculptures into fragments for easy transport. In March 1971, Archaeologist Ian Graham, a research fellow in Middle American archaeology at Harvard's Peabody Museum, entered La Naya, a Mayan site in Guatemala; looters opened fire, killing his guide Pedro Sierra. In Costa Rica, says Dr. Dwight Heath of Brown University, who spent a Fulbright year there in 1968-69, "One percent of the labor force was involved in illicit traffic in antiquities-which means there are more bootleggers in that little country than there are professional archaeologists in the whole world...