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...Last Supper. Most Disneyland imitators have discovered that a park cannot thrive on a theme alone. "Theme parks have a hard time, unless they add new attractions," says one authority. "People don't come back, and what makes a park click is repeat business...
Eradication of parasite-bearing snails is not one bit easier than attacking the worms in man. The snails have survived the assaults of modern chemistry, and they thrive on the benefits of modern engineering-each new irrigation system, each new dam provides more breeding places. Victims pick up the larva in snail-infested paddyfields and irrigated patches where they work, drink and wash clothes. During the occupation of Japan, the U.S. Army drastically reduced the incidence of the disease by killing snails with the chemical sodium pentachlorphenate, but like so many other chemical agents, the stuff also killed fish...
...herd of cows to supply his family with milk, and wears simple white cotton from his own mills. Mafatlal and other Indian industrialists of his generation are more civic-minded and less apologetic about wielding great wealth than were their fathers and grandfathers. Since their companies generally thrive despite India's chaotic economic conditions-while many government projects founder because of red tape and mismanagement-they are understandably anxious to protect themselves from nationalization. Yet they agree that India's problems are so many and so huge that there is plenty of room for both private and public...
...general, the magazine is afflicted with poor writing and, one therefore assumes, sloppy editing. The articles on nomads, whose "flocks thrive and blossom," is perhaps the worst offender...
...Leukemia, reported the World Health Organization, has strange geographic preferences that might contain some valuable clues to the origin of the disease. In the U.S., mortality from leukemia is 50% higher in cities than in rural areas. The disease generally seems to thrive in a belt stretching across the north of the country, particularly west of the Mississippi. In New York City, it occurs twice as often among the Jewish population as among Protestants or Roman Catholics. Mortality from leukemia is high in the U.S., Denmark and Israel but relatively low in France, Ireland, Italy and Japan...