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There were also elaborate plans for a national censorship office called the Wartime Information Security Program, or WISP (as in whisper). A CBS vice president, the late Theodore F. Koop, had agreed to be the standby national censor, and about 40 civilian executives had consented to work as the unit's staff in wartime. A 1965 internal government memo notes that censorship manuals and regulations had been stockpiled, and a fully equipped communications center was established outside Washington. Press reports in 1970 exposed the existence of a standby national censor and led to the formal dissolution of the censorship unit...
...this puzzle -- or to find out anything else you ever wanted to know about mosquitoes -- is an innocuous-looking brick building near the University of Florida's Gainesville campus. Its halls nourish, among other obscure yet useful twigs of the mighty oak that is the U.S. government, the Mosquito Unit, or, as it is formally known, the Mosquito and Fly Research Unit at the Medical and Veterinary Entomology Research Laboratory of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture...
Gainesville's Mosquito Unit, along with everybody else involved in what is anthropocentrically called pest control, is rethinking its philosophy and strategy. The mosquitoes are the same, crafty and cunning as ever. But the weapons and tactics used to combat them are changing fast. Chemicals are out; biologicals are in. Dumping poisons indiscriminately is no longer in vogue; figuring out ecologically correct ways to get mosquitoes to do themselves in is all the rage. "The era of insecticides is coming to an end," says Donald Barnard, the Mosquito Unit's chief. "They're still our first line of defense...
Very well: Why do mosquitoes whine? For many species, the unit's two dozen scientists and technicians will answer in one voice, and in one word...
...like ours, with vaginas, ovaries, penises and testes. Their coupling takes four to 40 seconds, though in a few of the 2,500 known species male and female may remain locked together for more than an hour. They show every sign of ecstasy, but do they feel it? Mosquito Unit head Barnard looks pained. This is not the sort of question sober scientists are supposed to concern themselves with, and besides, there's nothing in the literature about it. "Well," he finally admits with a sigh, "they do have a central nervous system...