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...famed botanist William Seal, a pioneer in the development of high-yield corn hybrids, began a bizarre experiment. He buried 20 pint-size bottles, each containing 1,000 seeds of 20 weed varieties, near his lab in East Lansing, Mich. His aim, in that age before weedkillers: to find out how long plowed-under seeds could survive, and thus, how long fields needed to be left fallow, to ensure a weed-free crop when replanted...
...position in the Communist Party, which remains the seat of ultimate authority in China. But by bringing in a younger, more vigorous team, Deng is clearly hoping to bring more efficiency and energy to China's government ministries. In the same way, he has also been trying to weed out the inefficient, lazy and corrupt officials who snarl the middle levels of China's huge bureaucracy...
...center of the furor expected at next week's Democratic Convention is Rule F3-c, which is designed to weed out defectors among the delegates. If adopted by the convention, the rule would bind all delegates to vote on the first ballot for the presidential candidate whom they were elected to support by state caucuses and primaries. According to the proposed rule, a rebellious delegate-for instance, a Carter delegate who wants to vote for Kennedy-could be replaced "at any time up to and including the presidential balloting." In practice, this would mean that the state delegation...
Something tells Earl not to give money and car to a total stranger, but "to have an outright enemy as one's nearest neighbor, when one lived at the termination of a dead-end road, with only a wooded hollow beyond, a weed-field across the street, was unthinkable." What follows during the next 24 hours suggests that Earl is right to worry. Bad enough that Ramona accuses him of trying to rape her and that Harry claims to be the victim of his homosexual advances; worse that Enid placidly believes both charges. Keese keeps throwing his new neighbors...
...MasterCard business in South Dakota, where bank cards may charge as much as 24%, unless New York raises the level of interest that can be charged. Chicago's First National Bank is instituting a $20 fee for the previously gratis Visa card. Such fees may enable banks to weed out unused cards, which now represent about $25 billion in outstanding credit lines, as well as so-called "non-revolvers," who pay their bills on time. Prompt payers get free credit without generating any revenue for the bank...