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...area. Still, Brown stubbornly refused to permit aerial spraying-until the Reagan Administration finally threatened to embargo all California produce. By then, it may have been too late. Two weeks ago, on what San Joaquin farmers now call Black Friday, a fertile female Medfly was discovered in a trap placed in an apricot orchard owned by Gene Bays, a third-generation California grower in the small town of Westley (pop. 800), near the western edge of the rich farm lands...
Much of Kylian's inspiration comes from his roots. Three of the works danced in New York (the company goes on to Boston and the Wolf Trap festival, outside Washington, D.C.) are set to music of Czech Composers Leos Janacek and Bohuslav Martinu. "I am very proud of my background and would never want to deny it, although I would never push Czech composers just because they are Czech," says Kylian, who is still a Czech citizen. He is delighted at the prospect that his company will perform in Prague, his home town, next year...
Warns Cornell University Entomologist Warren Johnson: '"By the time you see caterpillars greater than one-half inch in length, the time has passed for the most effective insecticide application." At that stage, however, a simpler tactic may help: encircling tree trunks with sticky bands that trap the caterpillars as they scurry up or down. One difficulty: as the bands become overloaded, the caterpillars evade capture by clambering over the bodies of their trapped brethren...
...Their relationship, though straightforward enough in their unmitigated devotion, is burdened with the knowledge that they must ignore a disintegrating society to find happiness in the big guy's bean bag of a bed. Superman must make coices he has never faced before, knowing that Evil has managed to trap Good in a nasty headlock while he was busy with his private life...
Cartoonist Garry Trudeau at Colby College in Waterville, Me.: "You live in a deeply cynical world where generosity is in short supply, a world where taking a stand has come to mean finding the nearest trap door for escape...