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...Radcliffe Union of Students voted last night to support the new Radcliffe Women's Center in principle and to give it $600 in seed money. RUS decided to defer consideration of the center's major funding request until its next legislative meeting on November...
...specter of a generation of young Americans coming home to seed ad- diction across the U.S. prompted a nationwide outcry and fast White House response. President Nixon created a Special Action Office for Drug Abuse Prevention, and named a leading expert to head it: Dr. Jerome Jaffe, then director of the drug abuse program of the Illinois department of mental health. One of Jaffe's first measures was to install urinalysis equipment in Viet Nam to screen all returning G.I.s for traces of drugs. Now in its seventh week, the testing has produced remarkably consistent, and lower than expected...
Horned stock-sheep and cattle-are ruminants; seed passing through the alimentary canals of such animals becomes sterile. Reseeding by the usual means is not effective in our arid Western states...
...horse is the only animal that pays for its grazing by reseeding the area over which it grazes. Seed passing through the mustang's alimentary canal will sprout more quickly than otherwise is the case. Not only that, the humus forms a mulch that protects the sprouting seed until roots are sent deep enough into the soil for the new plant to live through the hot, dry period that follows the spring season...
...indeed a land of unexpectedly lush and verdant beauty, whose emerald rice and jute fields stretching over the Ganges Delta as far as the eye can see belie the savage misfortunes that have befallen its people. The soil is so rich it sprouts vegetation at the drop of a seed, yet that has not prevented Bengal from becoming a festering wound of poverty. Nature can be as brutal as it is bountiful, lashing the land with vicious cyclones and flooding it annually with the spillover from the Ganges and the Brahmaputra rivers...