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To avoid using DDT and other pesticides, more and more U.S. communities are turning to nature for help. The latest to do so are Claremont, Calif., and Albuquerque, N. Mex., whose residents have imported thousands of ladybugs to control millions of sap-sucking aphids. Claremonters report that ladybugs are cheaper...
AT Khe Sanh, the distinctive pump and whir of hundreds of helicopter rotor blades began at 7 a.m., even before the morning fog started to lift. Drowsy pilots walked out to their UH-1 Hueys and malevolent-looking OH-6 Cobra gunships, checked out the oil levels, the instruments and...
An evening of this kind relies on a cultural remembrance of things past. Familiarity breeds content. Nonetheless, it is the singer who glorifies the song. Perhaps Siobhan McKenna's finest moments come in the two greatest Joyce monologues, "Anna Livia Plurabelle," from Finnegans Wake, and Molly Bloom's...
No One to Trust. To prepare for these dinners, Khrushchev made it a point to take a nap during the day; anyone who grew drowsy at Stalin's table was not likely to remain in the dictator's favor for long, Khrushchev explains. Moreover, Stalin's soirees...
Even before a baby recognizes faces or responds to voices, says Emde, he smiles when he is drowsy or wriggling in his sleep. During his first two weeks of life, such grins occur as many as nine times per 1 ½ hours of sleep. By comparing the brain-wave patterns...