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...Lethal Vapor. Anti-Sallal republicans have made three assassination attempts on Sallal in recent months, sabotaged the Soviet-built port of Hodeida, and frequently cut the main roads linking the cities. They have gunned down dozens of Egyptians from ambush and blown their Jeeps to bits with mines. So strong is the anti-Egyptian feeling that emissaries sent with bundles of cash to buy the loyalty of dissident chieftains have been murdered and the money returned-the latter a most unusual occurrence in the Middle East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: Revolt Within a War | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...also on border towns in Saudi Arabia, which he claims serve as supply depots for the guerrillas. His foes even charge him with a desperate poison-gas bombing raid in which more than 120 people in the northern village of Ketaf were'killed last month by a lethal vapor "smelling like oranges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Middle East: Revolt Within a War | 2/17/1967 | See Source »

...biology team next plans to trace the reaction which causes the oak vapor to activate the female. They will remove certain endocrine glands to see if the moths will still mate without these glands...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologists Study Moths' Sex Life, Find Oak Vapor 'Turns Them On' | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...Harvard biologists have found that when the female polyphemus moth, receives the vapor from the oak through its antennae, it releases a chemical--a sex pheromone--which activates the male...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Biologists Study Moths' Sex Life, Find Oak Vapor 'Turns Them On' | 2/10/1967 | See Source »

...Face. The lunar tides when the moon was near produced friction and violent heating of the interior and surface layers of the earth, Singer believes. This could well have led to the sudden degassing of rocks, volcanic activity and the creation of an atmosphere that probably consisted of water vapor, carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Thus, the capture of the moon by the earth may well have produced an atmosphere much earlier in the earth's history than anyone had heretofore believed- and led to the evolution of life itself. Terrestrial gravity had an even more spectacular effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cosmogony: New Twist for an Old Theory | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

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