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...vital link in the chain of eaters and eaten are daphnia, or water fleas. These swarming, near-microscopic relatives of crabs and lobsters are the staff of life for many other aquatic species, which are ultimately the food of fish. But if DDT gets into their water, it knocks the daphnia cold. A single pound of DDT in a 38-acre pond averaging ten feet in depth, warns Professor Anderson, is enough to kill the daphnia-and thus eventually starve the fish...
...From Nature's chain whatever link you strike...
Unlike the Dutch, the French troops (including the veteran 2nd Armored Division) bore the brunt of the fighting. Last week they captured the focal Annamite resistance center of Tayninh, some 50 miles northwest of Saigon, and got their first overland link with food-rich Cambodia. But the Annamites kept up bitter fighting in the bamboo forests, effectively sniped and sabotaged...
Success would give the Communists, long established in landlocked Yenan, an over land link with Russia and an outlet to the sea. It would also block the Central Government's chance to unify China...
...Schlesinger's purpose in the Age of Jackson is to re-examine the political ideas and motives that animated the Jacksonian leaders of the masses, and to establish these ideas as the missing link between the somewhat contradictory body of theory and practice known as Jeffersonianism and the somewhat contradictory body of theory and practice called the New Deal. The result is an unusually readable history about one of the most opaque episodes in the American past...