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...University scientists was studying a flightless Southern grasshopper called Romalea microptera. During egg-laying periods, when the female Romalea has its large abdomen stuck in the soil, and at other times when the grasshopper is vulnerable to attack by ants, it noisily emits from openings in its thorax a foul-smelling, brownish froth that halts predator ants in their tracks. To find out why the liquid is so effective, the scientists, led by Biologist Thomas Eisner, extracted it from several hundred grasshoppers and analyzed its contents. In addition to quinones, phenols, terpenes and other chemicals that are often used...
...their opposition to revaluation, Schiller's proposal to let the mark float ran into considerable opposition within his own government. At a four-hour meeting in Chancellor Willy Brandt's house in the Venusberg section of Bonn, Foreign Minister Walter Scheel argued that a floating mark would foul up the Common Market's system of farm price supports, which assumes set relationships between the currencies of the Market's six member nations. Bundesbank President Karl Klasen contended that Germany should instead clamp on tight exchange controls in order to stop the inflow of unwanted dollars...
Robbie Doyle, with Rich Wilson as crew, skippered for the Crimson in Division "A" and was third in the 12-team field. Doyle took three first in the 11 races, but in the final one he fouled out to give the Crimson 12 points. Going into the final race the Crimson was only two points out of first place, and the foul-out cost Harvard the regatta...
...experiencing the physical world comes more and more to mean bumper-to-bumper travel through neon corridors and foul air to beaches slicked with oil and cesspools that were once rivers and lakes, the attraction to a fantasy of internal travel to now experiences becomes more compelling...
...Division B Charlie Koch, Robbie Doyle and George Putnam combined for a third place. Doyle skippered the boat to six firsts but a capsize by Koch and a foul out by Doyle each gave the Crimson 14 points to account for U.R.I.'s victory margin...