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...himself blamed not only for failing to relieve suffering but also for slowing economic recovery in those areas. But the President and his aides insisted that Washington could not make up flood losses dollar for dollar: states, local governments, private charities and the victims themselves will have to bear much of the cost. Said Chris Edley Jr., a program associate director for the Office of Management and Budget: "For farmers, the point is to make sure that it's not a disastrous year. The object is to get them through the crisis, not make them whole...
...extent and damage, the Mississippi-Missouri inundation may be the all-time U.S. monster, but Midwesterners bear up with good humor and resilience -- though also with aching backs...
...much-publicized results seemed to bear out Chow's theory that a combination of anti-HIV drugs would cause the virus to mutate to a non-reproductive form, and 400 human volunteers were selected for studies of the so-called "triple drug therapy." But other scientific teams were unable to replicate the results, prompting the Harvard team to repeat the experiment, The New York Times reported...
Before being released to growers, imported apple and pear trees are kept in federal quarantine centers for up to five years. Inspectors, who have to certify that the plants are free of viruslike microorganisms known as viroids, must wait until the trees bear fruit and check the apples and pears for viroid scarring and spotting. Agriculture Department scientists announced that they have developed a test that takes only two months: botanists graft a branch of the imported tree to a healthy plant, let it grow, then examine sap from a new twig or leaf for viroids...
...arts to be visible, or again from one side of the mouth utter "Let's celebrate the arts at Harvard," and from the other side say "Let's eliminate the 'Mother of the movement!'" The Le Corbusier edifice at 24 Quincy Street stands now in disorder, its hallowed walls bear the stains of the abhorrent act perpetrated within and the unacceptable tactics (better served by undemocratic, dictatorial regimes) used to advance it to fruition...