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...life in the clouds is as widespread as Parker suspects, biologists will have whole new ecological possibilities to explore. Clouds may well spread disease, for example, by harboring harmful viruses or bacteria. On the other hand, organisms that thrive on the ingredients of smog and smoke could help in the fight against air pollution. Introduced into clouds, they would feed on the undesirable gases and particles, thus converting pollution into harmless cloud creatures...
...themselves. They would do this by sowing doubtsand suspicions. They hope then to attract sufficient support to be able to enforce demands on those whom they malign and designate as the enemy, using the old means of distortion, accusation, guilt imputed by association, and so on. And they thrive as people lend them credence...
...small pools, each with a capacity of 16,000 gallons. Within ten days the pools teem with phytoplankton and become ideal breeding grounds for aquatic life. Last week the Columbia scientists "set" their first batch of young Chesapeake Bay and Long Island oysters in the ponds, where they should thrive on the bountiful food supply. Eventually the scientists hope to raise snails, shrimps and anchovies in the pools...
...open sea itself may be "ranched." Columbia University Marine Biologist Oswald Roels is now exploring a "fertilizing" scheme in which a seagoing dredge would bring up nutrients from the depths, distribute them near the surface to encourage the growth of plankton, and harvest the fish that might then thrive in the area...
Powerful Parasite. The classic disease is caused by Vibrio cholera bacteria, comma-shaped microbes that multiply in the intestine and thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bug responsible for the present pandemic, a strain first identified in 1906 at the Tor quarantine station in Egypt, is prolific and can quickly cause death if not treated promptly. It multiplies rapidly in the gut, producing millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts...