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...they will the legions of rural-life researchers toiling at North Dakota State University. On the edge of chocolate-dark fields on the west side of the campus, the federal government has built a maze of greenhouses, labs and research facilities dedicated to spawning new high-yield varieties of bug-resistant wheat, potatoes, sunflowers and sugar beets. There the Northern Crop Sciences Lab, the Biosciences Research Laboratory and the Wheat Quality Laboratory attract millions each year in research grants. Nearby, the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute and the Mountain-Plains Consortium perform Washington-sanctioned studies on guardrails and scenic byways...
This isn't to say we shouldn't worry about the government. Our leaders conspire to do bad things behind our backs: they bug us, they experiment on us, they subsidize foreigners who sell us drugs-the list goes on. Fortunately, these clumsy transgressions-unlike the Mission: Impossible fantasies of militia members and Oliver Stone-are eminently verifiable, our knowledge of them not dependent on tweezing out coincidences from selective readings of the evidence. We should also remember that government tends to commit its worst crimes in public. The process is called politics, and it's no big secret...
...SIGNS OF IMPENDING DOOM HAD BEEN MULTIPLYING for at least a month. A headlong bug-out from the Central Highlands in March 1975 signaled that South Vietnam could no longer muster either the strength or the will to hold off the armies sweeping down from the communist North. The fall of Danang late in the month produced scenes of horror that appeared to foreshadow what might happen later in Saigon: panic-maddened South Vietnamese soldiers trampling women and children to get aboard the last American 727 to fly out; desperate soldiers clinging to the landing gear of that plane only...
...children have their bug stage. I never grew out of mine," Wilson said at a reception last week at WGBH...
BUSINESS: The Bug That Bit Intel...