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...most striking change was that shown by South Korea, long among the most ardent of cold warriors. President Chung Hee Park declared that members should transcend differences in ideology "in order to spread the sunshine of peace throughout the region." Whether all the flowery rhetoric will be enough to give ASPAC a viable future, however, remains to be seen...
Each year more and more American elm trees, which once lined hundreds of town squares, fall victim to Dutch elm disease. Last year the apparently incurable blight destroyed at least half a million trees in the U.S. This summer the pestilence may be worse; it has spread from the East through the South and Midwest and is now attacking trees as far west as Denver...
After every other remedy failed (including such folksy "cures" as injecting trees with turpentine or whacking galvanized nails into their trunks), scientists believe they have found a way to stop the fungus that causes the disease and the elm-bark beetles that spread it. The new approach involves two steps: spraying dormant elms in early spring with a pesticide called methoxychlor, which is lethal to the beetle but harmless to most other insects, and then spraying again in June with a chemical called Benlate, which attacks only the fungus. Instead of spraying, the arborist may also inject Benlate directly into...
...Medical authorites generally blame poor sanitation, blood transfusions and drug addicts' needles for the spread of serum hepatitis, a debilitating and sometimes fatal liver disease. Now it appears that the mosquito might also transmit the ailment. Studies by Rutgers University, the New York Blood Center and the New Jersey Medical School concentrated on tropical mosquitoes. After drawing blood from a person known to be a chronic carrier of hepatitis, the laboratory-raised insects retained the virus for three days and presumably could have transmitted the infection if allowed to attack another victim. The researchers know of no hepatitis cases...
...oldest art works, the primitive animal paintings in the cave at Lascaux in southwestern France, for example, were Stone Age man's magical invocation of success in the hunt. The astrology so many millions follow today is a direct legacy from the astronomer priests of Babylonia. Even when Christianity spread through Europe, many in the countryside kept their rustic rites along with the new religion. ("Pagan" stems from the Latin paganus meaning "country dweller" and "heathen" from "dweller on the heath.") For centuries, magical arts and Christianity lived in uneasy coexistence, as they still do in Latin American countries...