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...North Korea and North Viet Nam were welcomed as full members of the conference. So was Panama, where U.S. control of the Canal Zone drew the sympathy of the delegates. Excluded from participation were South Korea and the Philippines, apparently because both governments permit American troops on their soil...
Until a century ago, most people in the Western world worked on the soil or on the sea. Time was measured not by the abstract division of matter and motion but by the exigencies of wresting one's livelihood from nature. In 1790 (the year Franklin died) more than 90% of the population of the then United States (a total of almost 4 million people) worked on the land. The rhythm of life was shaped by the feeding of the animals, the sowing of the soil, the lambing of the ewes, the harvesting of the crops in a daily...
Behind these statistics is a change of greater psychological meaning-as great in its import, perhaps, as some of the first experiences of work that coded man's behavior. A pre-industrial world-whether one hunts animals or tends flocks, cuts wood or digs coal, cultivates the soil or fishes the seas-is primarily a game against nature. One's experience of this world is conditioned by the vicissitudes of the seasons, the character of the weather, the exhaustion of the soils. The forces to be overcome are tangible, if capricious. An industrial world is a game against...
...Soviet Union is making huge new investments in fertilizer plants. Nonetheless, Soviet farmers still lack soil additives. Further, Soviet farm managers are relatively unschooled in such important crop-producing techniques as soil conservation, herbicide use and pest control-a legacy of the decades during which the head of a collective farm was most often not its best manager but its most politically reliable Communist. As a result, a Soviet farmer produces only one-tenth as much grain as his U.S. counterpart. Reports a member of a U.S. Agriculture Department team that studied Soviet farms last month: "The managing staffs...
...decompose naturally in five years. The secret: addition of clean, dry starch to plastic polymers. "By putting in the starch," explains Inventor Gerald J.C. Griffin, a teacher of plastics technology at Brunei University, "we are adding carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. The bags will act as a carbon source for soil bacteria, breaking down into humus and carbon dioxide." Griffin's process, which can be used for most plastic products, has a powerful appeal beyond reducing long-lived litter. Because starch costs much less than polymer plastics, the process saves money -up to $4.50 per 1,000 bags right...