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...fears of overcrowded schools, rising crime and deterioration of the neighborhood, pointing out that this had happened in the communities many of them had moved away from. New York Conservative-Republican Senator James Buckley, carrying his protest to George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, also argued that soil conditions on the site were so bad that construction costs would soar, and that the lack of air conditioning in the plans meant that airplane noise from nearby La Guardia Airport would be intolerable for the residents. After hearing Buckley, Romney agreed that he would review the project, even though...
...Lucius D. Clay made a symbolic gesture designed to calm frightened West Berliners. He took a helicopter across the "death strip" to Steinstucken and evacuated 32 political refugees; a day later, he created what may be the U.S. Army's smallest permanent armed garrison operating openly on foreign soil-a post staffed by three military policemen, who live in the basement of the mayor's house and patrol Steinstucken's perimeter...
...years he has headed a scientific team looking into the three-dimensional structure of enzymes, the long-chained proteins that act as catalysts in all the chemical reactions necessary for life. The group's latest interest has been an enzyme called subtilisin, which is found in ordinary soil bacteria. As they investigated subtilisin's complex structure, the scientists realized that it had a curious similarity to another enzyme, chymotrypsin, common to all vertebrates, including man. While the overall molecular architecture of the two enzymes is quite different, they both have three identical groups of amino acids that form...
...agricultural chemicals being promoted today by fear-provoking, irresponsible environmentalists." Today's greatest danger, Borlaug pointed out. is the pressure put on food supplies by the world's rapidly growing population. Fully 50% of mankind is undernourished, perhaps another 15% is malnourished. To make matters worse, the soil in many developing nations is worn out, and crops are ravaged by ravenous insects. The need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides is not only clear, Borlaug said, but imperative...
Mountains and Jungles. Indonesia's resources are as vast as the country itself, which ranks fifth in the world in population. There are 300 million acres of teak, sandalwood, ebony and other valuable timber, at least one-fortieth of the world's oil reserves under the soil and probably far more offshore, and unmeasured quantities of copper and nickel ore. Experts estimate that Ertsberg Mountain in West Irian, which is the Indonesian half of New Guinea, contains 33 million tons of copper, gold, silver and iron ore all by itself...