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Orians and Rhoades speculate that stricken trees release chemical signals called pheromones (more commonly known as insect sex lures). Wafted through the air, these vapors apparently stimulate neighboring undamaged trees, which also alter their leaf chemistry in order to become less tasty to voracious bugs...
Jamaican Prime Minister Edward P. G. Seaga '52 met with President Bok Saturday and later spoke with reporters about developments in his poverty-stricken nation...
...debate over U.S. policy in Central America, one of the Reagan Administration's biggest problems has been to make a successful case that there is any kind of superpower meddling in the stricken region-any meddling, that is, aside from its own. Congressmen have leaped quickly upon the Administration's barely concealed support for the guerrilla warfare of disaffected rebels against the Marxist-led Sandinista government of Nicaragua. Legislators have been unwilling to accept Reagan's oft-repeated assertion that the four-year-old insurgency in El Salvador is covertly sponsored by the Soviet Union...
...American people when it comes to Latin America and the potential for trouble. When one party believes, the other seems to scoff, and there is something in the U.S.'s mind-set that rejects the idea of a serious threat from any nation so close, so poverty-stricken and, as folklore would have it, so naturally inefficient...
Disregard of Privacy. Jones does not find much concern about the privacy of public figures. Readers do resent disregard for the "feelings of individuals like themselves who for no fault of their own are thrust into the news. They resent photos that show grief-stricken families or that hold someone up to ridicule...