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Some scientists see the scare as a sneak preview of what could be the worst infestation since the medfly plague in 1980-82. "You have to beat down the stories that generate the scary movies," says Honeybee Specialist Orley Taylor of the University of Kansas, who was in California as an adviser. "But you also have to make people aware that you have something that is economically and biologically extremely difficult to handle...
...September that it would pay $300 million for San Diego-based Hybritech, one of the leaders in the development of monoclonal antibodies, which are proteins that could potentially help diagnose and conquer diseases like cancer. Last week Bristol-Myers said it would buy Seattle's Genetic Systems, another specialist in monoclonal antibodies, for $260 million...
Increasingly aware of the stakes and feeling somewhat upstaged by the well-oiled conservative machinery, Democratic Senators plan to ask tougher questions of the Reagan nominees, and have hired their own judicial-selection specialist. Some liberal lobbyists are campaigning to head off targeted candidates before the President formally chooses them. One measure of that tactic's success may be the fate of Law Professor Lino Graglia of the University of Texas, who has publicly opposed busing. He is expected to be nominated soon, despite a strong effort to persuade the A.B.A. to find him unacceptable...
...only one of them featuring Author Simon Brett's delightful amateur detective, the hammy and frequently out-of-work actor Charles Paris. Brett's ten Paris novels thrive on their bitchy wit and backstage authenticity. Outside those environs his writing can become fey and whimsical. But Brett is a specialist at sketching protagonists who are at once charming and palpably rotten, so that their ultimate escape or exposure remains a matter of genuine suspense...
...South American plate, which is moving westward. As the oceanic plate dives deeper into a region of high temperature and pressure some 60 miles to 125 miles below the earth's surface, rock in the area begins to soften and form magma, molten rock. Says Robert Christiansen, a volcano specialist with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, Calif.: "This is one area in which our knowledge is the least advanced...