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Warns Cornell University Entomologist Warren Johnson: '"By the time you see caterpillars greater than one-half inch in length, the time has passed for the most effective insecticide application." At that stage, however, a simpler tactic may help: encircling tree trunks with sticky bands that trap the caterpillars as they scurry up or down. One difficulty: as the bands become overloaded, the caterpillars evade capture by clambering over the bodies of their trapped brethren...
...early 1800s, Eli Whitney helped to pioneer mass production, using standardized, interchangeable parts at his Connecticut musket factory. By the early 1900s, the toolmaker's skills enabled machines to engrave the Lord's Prayer on a sliver of metal less than one-hundredth of an inch wide...
Today's artisans can trim metal to within one ten-thousandth of an inch, using mechanical cuts more precise than the strokes of the finest brain surgeon. During a grueling four-year apprenticeship in vocational classrooms and on the shop floor, the toolmaker absorbs the principles of solid geometry and learns to think in three dimensions. He is expected to read labyrinthine blueprints as well as be aware of the exact levels of heat and pressure that will cause various metals to buckle and break...
...most telling factor will be Hearns's reach advantage. Leonard has a 70-inch reach, which is normal for welterweights. Hearns's reach is an incredible 78 inches. Those extra eight inches will give Leonard fits, because he's boxer, not a brawler. It's not his style to bob and weave to get inside--the way Joe Frazier had to against Ali to offset a four-inch reach disadvantage. And even if Leonard did bob and weave. Hearns is an expert at throwing his left jab to keep an opponent...
When students at the Irvington Pentecostal Academy in Houston have a question about their lessons, they signal for the supervisor's attention by raising either an eight-inch American flag or a small blue and white Christian flag at their desks. Each day they recite pledges of allegiance to both flags, and to the Bible. They all wear an eye-catching school uniform of red, white and blue; for men (including the school's principal), blue pants, red shirts and flag-studded blue neckties; for women, plaid jumpers or blue skirts and vests with white blouses. Irvington...