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...scattered weed...
...first things that meet the eye when one drives from Boston into Kendall Square are the new office buildings and the well-manicured shrubs on the traffic circle spelling "Welcome to Cambridge." Immediately behind this facade, however, are a few lonely old buildings and acres of barren, weed-filled ground that have been the object of a broiling ten-year controversy which still has no end in sight...
...Floras dueled Muller most of the way, but bloomed in the first stages of the fifth mile to leave Muller finishing fifth. "If I had had some of that weed spray," McCurdy said of the Flora twins, "I would have sprayed it on them...
...Kinshasa has been agog. Though initial predictions that 30,000 foreign visitors would descend on the ill-equipped capital have proved far too optimistic, fight preparations are still elaborate. Thousands of precooked frozen meals have been flown in. As le super combat approaches in the former Belgian Congo, the weed-infested median along Kinshasa's main boulevard has suddenly blossomed with flowers; new street lights have been installed and virtually every building in town has been scrubbed or painted...
...same time, another agricultural chemical was under attack before a Senate commerce subcommittee. It is Dow Chemical's herbicide 2,4,5-T, which was labeled "Agent Orange" and used as a defoliant in Viet Nam. Though the weed killer can cause "extensive ecological damage," the National Academy of Sciences has reported, there is "no conclusive evidence" that it triggers birth defects in humans...