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Zero Population Growth. The angel of popular culture today is to his forebears what the last American buffalo, ailing in some future zoo, will be to the mighty herds that roamed the West: a token, a remnant of a spiritual breed that will never return. In the 13th century, Doctor of the Church Albertus Magnus held that there were nine choirs of angels, "each choir at 6,666 legions, and each legion at 6,666 angels." That made 399,920,004, all fluttering and hymning in orbit around the throne of God. Of these, one-third were flung down with...
Reacting to charges that leaded gasolines are a prime source of air pollution, the Buffalo city council has adopted the nation's first anti-lead ordinance. Starting next September, all service stations in the city must have at least one pump for low-leaded gas. In 1976, the sale of gas with more than one-half gram of lead per gallon will be prohibited. The goal by Jan. 1, 1980: no leaded gas in Buffalo. Meanwhile, Akron has ordered a ban on the sale of detergents containing phosphates by June 30, 1972. Offenders will be slapped with fines ranging...
...difficult life, but still possible in this season. But when the rainy season begins, water penetrates the chalky mass and drips into the "hotel." It is a silent world, for the surrounding villages have disappeared, and the inhabitants also live hidden in the mountains. Some water buffalo and a few pigs wander about at our feet among the craters made by the American bombs...
MARK PACE Buffalo...
...Buffalo researchers speculated that the difficulty may have been caused partly by a natural chemical hostility between the different strains. Despite this obstacle, scientists may someday produce amoebae with totally new characteristics. It may be possible, for example, to remove one component of an amoeba, alter it with drugs or radiation, and then insert it into the cell again. The artificially induced changes might then be passed on to the amoeba's offspring. Indeed, Danielli, who holds three doctorates (chemistry, physiology and biochemistry), seems certain that the work "opens up a new era of artificial life synthesis...