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...Swamp, drainage ditches for new housing may interrupt the already imperiled water flow into the Everglades. To the north, Walt Disney Productions is building a City of Tomorrow for 50,000 people that may cut off some of Orlando's water supply, since the site is atop porous soil that lets rainwater into Florida's vital aquifer. That underground layer of limestone stores much of the state's annual 57 inches of rainfall. Any significant damage to the aquifer could let salt water seep in from the sea and contaminate Florida's lush farm land...
Many of Singer's stories for children are derived from folktales. He laments the loss of interest in folklore. "Folklore was to me the soil on which literature grew." he said. "It is true that folklore contains a lot of foolish things, but it also contains grains of truth which are eternal. I am sure that a hundred years from now they will consider psychoanalysis folklore. And perhaps Marxism also...
...death. To keep the demonstrations from spreading to the capital, the government sent tanks to seal off roads leading to Phnom-Penh, closed Pochentong Airport and imposed a 6 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew. More ominously, Acting Head of State Cheng Heng charged that Viet Cong forces on Cambodian soil "have begun actions against the Cambodian people and our soldiers" near the border, and Prince Sirik Matak warned that an attack by thousands of Communist troops "could not be ruled out." There were reports that several thousand Communist troops had entered the country to foment trouble, and the new government...
Extra Caution. What that deadly substance was, no one knows. NASA scientists point out that many plants, such as ferns and liverworts, have actually grown better in lunar soil than in terrestrial soil. One possible explanation has been offered by microbiologists at Ames Research Center in California. They suggest that the low concentrations of chromium and other trace metals in moon soil may be nutritious for some plants but deadly for the bacteria...
William Kemmerer, chief of preventive medicine at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory, feels that the unknown killer in the moon soil holds no threat to human life or any usefulness as a vaccine against bacteria. But the surprising demise of the bacteria may well have contributed to the extra degree of caution displayed by NASA in planning next month's moon mission, which will take man for the first time into the more rugged and ancient lunar highlands. Although the space agency had been contemplating abolishing the postflight isolation period for Apollo crews, it has now accepted the recommendation...