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...average U.S. worker has done no better than hold steady. Union leaders now feel that they must push for giant wage and benefit increases to keep their members ahead of price boosts. But some are aware that the raises may only give the inflationary spiral a further upward twist. Says Phil Stack, a New York Teamsters official who helped negotiate the $57.60 hike: "Every time we get a raise, the prices increase and the hospitals go up as well. Somebody should stand still. If the others stopped, I think our men would be happy to stop...
...York City's latest slumlord conviction has an unusual twist. Among the victims: a group of elderly whites in a Bronx apartment building. The landlord: James Meredith, 36, the prominent civil rights figure who was the first known Negro ever to attend the University of Mississippi. The tenants of the building testified that Meredith had cut off vital services in an effort to force them to agree to rent hikes in their rent-controlled apartments. A Bronx criminal-court judge found Meredith guilty on two counts; sentencing date is July 25, when Meredith faces a possible $250 fine...
...Patience. It is hard to imagine a man with a clearer eye or a more far-ranging mind. Leonardo might stop work on a painting to dissect a cadaver and make meticulous studies of its musculature so that he could better understand the twist of a body or the shape of an arm. He took as his province the total knowledge of mankind (which was then manageable), and painting was only a part of it. Even when he was famed the length and breadth of Italy and crowned heads and prelates were besieging him for paintings, he pronounced himself...
...Bimini and emits a large variety of sounds. By recording underwater noises and observing the behavior that accompanied each sound, he quickly learned parts of the damselfish language and began using it to control his subjects. By playing a recorded chirping sound, for example, he caused the damselfish to twist 45 degrees and then make a U-shaped dip, a pattern it often follows during spawning. Another recorded call actually caused color changes on the body of the fish...
...swim singly or in small groups can be concentrated into selected areas, it may become profitable for commercial fishermen to "harvest" them, thereby tapping a rich new source of protein. Similar tactics might be used to satisfy less adventuresome tastes in seafood. "If we can make this little damselfish twist and turn around in the open sea," says Myrberg, "maybe some day we can make a snapper jump into...