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Buddhism, which originated in India in the 5th Century B.C., had spread all over the East but practically disappeared from its homeland by the 13th Century A.D.The Buddhist ascendancy mellowed Indian sculpture into a less sensuous character. Instead of the bulbous breasts, swivel hips, wasp waists and whirling, multiple arms of Hinduism's gods, the Buddha had a repose of form and peace of countenance somewhat like that of the greatest Greek sculpture...
...U.S.S. Wasp...
Smartest way for man to fight the insects who rival him for the earth's bounty is to turn insect against insect. The wasp Microbracon mellitor assassinates boll weevils (which last year destroyed 12-14% of the South's cotton), so this week an army of these stiletto-bearing flyers is being propagated at the University of Texas.* The Texas wasp dashes among cotton rows, seeks out bolls full of weevil larvae, plunges her stiletto into each grub, forces an egg through the hollow tube into each paralyzed victim, then flits on to another boll. In two days...
...Frederick W. Malley of Texas discovered that this wasp, a U.S. native, was a weevil parasite. In 1938, the Clayton Foundation, founded by famed Cotton-man Benjamin Clayton, put scientists to work on the wasps' use. Directed by Botanist Glenn W. Goldsmith, young Entomologist John M. Carpenter studied the insect, announced last week that it can be propagated in honey-smeared cages, released in fields to work as effectively as the unpampered outdoor variety. He is now devising equipment for mass production of the billions of wasps which cotton growers need...
...Federal bugmen in New Jersey have loosed swarms of another wasp, Tiphia, together with a bacterium, against the Japanese beetle (TIME, April...