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...would reject the treaty; President Nixon had said in February that the U.S. believed that any satisfactory SALT agreement should cover offensive as well as defensive weapons. The Soviets have made another demand that Washington considers totally unacceptable. They want all nuclear weapons systems capable of reaching Soviet soil-including the 600 U.S. tactical aircraft on NATO bases in Europe and aboard Sixth Fleet carriers -written into any SALT agreement on offensive weapons. Yet they refuse to concede that intermediate-range Soviet missiles capable of hitting Western Europe should also be limited...
...latest advance in insect weaponry came to light while a team of Cornell University scientists was studying a flightless Southern grasshopper called Romalea microptera. During egg-laying periods, when the female Romalea has its large abdomen stuck in the soil, and at other times when the grasshopper is vulnerable to attack by ants, it noisily emits from openings in its thorax a foul-smelling, brownish froth that halts predator ants in their tracks. To find out why the liquid is so effective, the scientists, led by Biologist Thomas Eisner, extracted it from several hundred grasshoppers and analyzed its contents...
...there, you patriots of silence, what do you know of me? I who lie in this lonely " place beneath the soil, cold as the death I died for no reason nor cause except your hatred. If I could come to you whole, And let you see me. Touch me, know me. Would you then weep for me, you silent patriots? Do you hear the mournful song of a distant bird, the soft and gentle flutter of her wounded wings? Or are you so made of stone and steel no dart of love could pierce the armor of your frozen hearts...
...this makes contemporary farming something more than a bucolic communion of man, plow and earth. Says Erv: "A farmer these days has to be a good buyer and seller-that's the important thing. But he must also be an electrician, soil analyst and veterinarian. If he isn't, he's sunk." Each winter Erv and his sons attend courses in nearby towns given by the Extension Service and firms that try to keep farmers abreast of advancing farm technology. Lately Walters has added the omnipresent computer to his list of farm aids. For $80 a year...
...Gather what Edmund Wilson once called "two currents of profound feeling-one for the beauty of those lives lived out between the sky and the prairie; the other for the pathos of the human spirit making the effort to send down its roots and to flower in that barren soil." In this book, Stegner rides both currents...