Word: dwarfs
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...Mexico, when he heard the news about the $78,000 prize. "Somebody has made a mistake," he insisted. When he was finally convinced, he delayed meeting reporters until he had completed his day's work: carefully checking his latest plantings, including a new type of "triple dwarf" wheat...
...over the centuries into tall, thin-stemmed strains able to survive flooding and compete successfully with weeds for sunlight. But they are highly vulnerable to modern fertilizers, which cause them to become top-heavy with grain and topple over. To overcome that problem, Borlaug collected samples of a Japanese dwarf strain that had already been improved by a U.S. Agriculture Department scientist named Orville Vogel and crossed it with native Mexican wheat and other strains with desirable qualities. By growing them in both the hot, parched fields of northern Mexico and the higher, cooler regions near Mexico City, Borlaug eventually...
...like a reverent tourist at Lexington and Concord or the Statue of Liberty. At the end of the dirt road which climbs about a mile through the woods toward the advertised cabin, there is still another engraved plaque. There, through a hedge and over another bank, an orchard of dwarf apple trees conceals (except from the annual busloads of DAR chapters and Leagues of Women Voters) the much announced Frost Cabin-unpainted, compact, reassuringly meager. Inside, the cabin is absolutely sparse but quite complete; a sitting room with fireplace and bookshelves, a tiny kitchen with saucepans and brillo pads...
Isaac Bashevis Singer, 66, has now lived in the U.S. longer than he did in Poland. At both terminals he has borne witness to the Jewish catastrophes that dwarf the past and pre-empt the future: pogroms, the Holocaust, assimilation and its concomitant, the dying of the Yiddish language in which he writes. And yet within this spare grandpaterfamilias still resides the spirit of a young Hasid, whose nights were animated by ghosts leaping about the Sabbath candles, inanimate objects given life by the Evil One and the immanent...
There are implications of the discovery that go beyond the white-dwarf theory. Since the discovery of pulsars three years ago, most astronomers have come to agree that the strange signal-emitting objects are in fact neutron stars-dying stars that according to theory have collapsed with such force that all that remains is a ball of neutrons as small as ten miles across. With the help of Kemp's new technique for detecting distant magnetism, astronomers may now be able to substantiate their pulsar theories. If pulsars are indeed neutron stars-objects even more dense than white dwarfs...