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...civil war. Under the fueros, traditionally granted by most Spanish governments, the Basques were allowed to collect their own taxes and run their own local governments according to the timeless, almost tribal, lights of their ancestors-who decided Basque affairs in a council that met under an oak tree in the ancient town of Guernica...
...pill for almost two years with no side effects, and it's much simpler than any other method I've tried." To the neurotics who complain that it is too difficult or too much trouble to take a pill a day, a 34-year-old mother in Oak Park, Mich., responds: "I have my hands full running after four little Indians, and if I had another I'd die. The mere thought of having an unwanted baby is enough to make me remember to take my pills...
...Citroën. He summers in the Périgord, where he grows apples and walnuts experimentally to establish new money crops. Floirat has also helped to revive the dying truffle industry. Natives insisted that a virus had wiped out truffles; Floirat proved that they would reflourish if the oak groves where they grew were thinned and the soil cultivated. Soon to be honored by the Périgourdins for this achievement, Floirat is unmoved by his new distinction. Says he: "Missiles or truffles, the main thing is to go about it scientifically. I wasn't created to lose...
...guardian angel is "going to be very largely on-the-job training as far as I am concerned," she admitted, as she started doing her own grocery shopping for the first time in 15 years. Then she wryly reported her research to a women's club in Royal Oak, Mich. "Eggs," she confided, "are 59? a dozen...
...biology team next plans to trace the reaction which causes the oak vapor to activate the female. They will remove certain endocrine glands to see if the moths will still mate without these glands...