Word: trained
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...effective means of combatting disease-carrying insects; shipment to countries where malaria is a problem; and use on onions, green peppers and sweet potatoes in certain areas that are particularly vulnerable to pests). The ban will not go into effect until the end of the year, allowing time to train farmers in using DOT'S chief substitute, methyl parathion, which is highly toxic but breaks down soon after being used...
...camera, a Polaroid engineer had the unusual insight one afternoon that the motors used to run his son's toy race cars might work. The next day Polaroid researchers invaded a Boston hobby shop and eventually modeled the SX-70 motor on an electric-train engine that they spotted there. While mulling over the complaint of a Polaroid owner, who had phoned all the way from Africa to protest that he could not find a replacement for his used-up battery, Land decided that the power cells that ran the complex mechanism of the SX-70 camera should...
...hurling waves of water down the hills into Rapid City. "We watched in amazement as a small stream spilling from the hillside turned into a four-foot-wide torrent," recalled Jerry Mashek, a reporter for the Rapid City Journal. "Rapid Creek, normally clear and placid, sounded like a freight train passing in the night. It must have been 150 feet wide...
Members of the French Canadian Front de Libération du Québec train in the Middle East, where among other things they learn assassination tactics. The bodies of an Eritrean and a Turk have been found among those of Palestinian guerrillas ambushed by the Israelis in the Jordan River valley; presumably they were on patrol as part of their training for eventual operations at home...
...Russell Train, chairman of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, believes that the U.S. can at least start lessening its energy problem right now by reducing waste. "We must shift our thinking from simply finding more energy sources to concerning ourselves with how to use energy more efficiently," he says. With better technology, most appliances can be made to consume less power and throw off less heat. The common light bulb uses only 10% of the electricity it burns, for example, and refrigerators can easily be produced to use 50% less power. More important, there is plenty of room...