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...research team at Munich's Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry imported 1,000,000 silkworm cocoons from Italy and Japan, opened them up with razor blades, separated the pupae of 310,000 females from the males. What followed, in the words of one researcher, was "a mass slaughter, and not for the fainthearted." Each tiny pupa was disemboweled, the scent glands carefully cut out. Male moths served as lab assistants: when they were placed near fractions into which the gland material had been divided, their fluttering wings told the scientists which parts contained the magic substance...
...greater than the difference in price. Instead of creating new products and new markets, private brands merely scramble to copy new products of national brands. So accustomed have national branders become to private-label imitation that they accept it almost philosophically. Says Durkee Famous Foods Vice President Harvey Slaughter: "We have 25 people working up new items to go out under our own label, but within six months, private-label processors copy the product, and we are forced to make them available ourselves under private labels...
Cambridge old-timers explain the slaughter, which began early Sunday, as resulting from the usual migration of herring up the Charles. The experts, however, had other explanations, ranging from Saturday's heavy rains to pollution of the river...
William H. Weston, professor of Cryptogramic Botany, Emeritus, said that a fish run is normal at this time of year, but termed such a large slaughter "a biological mess" and suggested that the "runs" weren't the entire answer...
...Lack of Truth. From the start, investigation of the brutal slaughter at Hola seemed strangely halfhearted, often clouded by deceit and outright lies. Day after the incident, an official Nairobi communique said the prisoners had died "after drinking water from a water cart." When Coroner W. H. Goudie began his own inquiry, he got little assistance from witnesses who testified, including, in his opinion, Hola's white Camp Commandant Michael Sullivan, whose veracity he frankly doubted. The coroner's verdict was itself curiously negative: "It is impossible to determine beyond reasonable doubt which injuries on the deceased were...