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...usually prompted by disappointed love. "My country, right or wrong" is not a very American slogan. We Americans have a hard time accepting a situation in which our country is wrong, not because we are more arrogant than other people, but because our country's rightness is our soil, our home. One loves one's birthplace or one's parents because they are one's birthplace or one's parents, regardless of whether the place is especially attractive or the parents especially worthy. One loves them because they exist. America demands to be loved...
...Martian Soil. At this point, instruments aboard Viking will begin sniffing the atmosphere, counting charged particles and identifying the gases as the craft descends. Farther down, other instruments will begin recording temperature, pressure and density of the thickening atmosphere. At 19,000 ft., now descending at only 560 m.p.h., the lander will unfurl a parachute, jettison its aeroshell and extend its landing legs...
NITROGEN FIXATION. At present only legumes such as peas, beans and alfalfa-with the aid of a soil-dwelling bacterium called rhizobium-are known to be naturally capable of fixing nitrogen from the air-joining it to other substances to form compounds necessary for plant growth. Most other plants must obtain their nitrogen from natural and man-made fertilizers. But scientists are seeking to give more plants this nitrogen-fixing ability. At Utah's Brigham Young University, biologists are attempting to "infect" other species of plants with rhizobia. Scientists in England have isolated the segment of the rhizobial...
...booming in the U.S. The growing zest for growing things got its biggest boost in 1974 from the recession, climbing food prices and the stay-at-home gasoline shortage. But the continuing splurge in backyard plots and apartment window boxes this spring proves that the back-to-the-soil trend is no mere fad. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that this summer, for the first time since the flourishing victory gardens of World War II, a majority of American households-some 37 million, or 51%-will be tending some kind of vegetable garden...
...march clearly provoked last week's riots. Israeli Premier Yitzhak Rabin called Gush Emunin's action a challenge to government authority and a needless affront to Arab sensitivities. Still, the government has been ambivalent about the extremist group's wish to settle on West Bank soil. It has been unable-or unwilling-to prevent the zealots from stealthily moving tents and equipment into the occupied territories and staking out three sites that are now existing communities. While condemning these illegal settlements, the government itself has sanctioned 58 Jewish paramilitary settlements, 16 of them in the Jordan Valley...