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...many millennia. One of them is the meaty bustard (crane family), which sometimes weighs as much as 30 Ibs. Among others are the decorative, long-tailed francolin (a kind of partridge) and a varied assortment of edible grouse. Some of the birds, Dr. Bump hopes, will be able to thrive in parts of the U.S. where the original native birds have given up the battle...
...world is in sad need of a true leader to deliver us from our own complacency and make us realize that Communism can and will continue to thrive on our indifferent and contradictory policies. Maybe, as Plato said, we need more philosopher-statesmen to direct the ship of state...
...said, are working toward the same goal, and the great expansion in industrial and Government laboratories means and will result in great acceleration in the rate of growth of science. Even if the university laboratories should go out of business, some would conclude that science will continue to thrive in the laboratories of industry and Government...
...prosperous villagers of Spilamberto in North Italy raged with frustration when they looked down on the neighboring village of San Cesario. One might have thought the shoe would be on the other foot: Spilamberto's 3,500 people thrive on the yield of their vineyards, their orchards, and their explosives factory; San Cesario's 1,500 citizens live on lower ground, where the uncertain waters of the Panaro River often overflow into the vineyards and the groves of apple and cherry trees. But San Cesario has what Spilamberto wants: a small bronze cannon with a broken breech. Last...
...researchers noted that certain infections (e.g., the minute protozoa which cause sleeping sickness) thrive in a well-fed patient, but languish where some supposedly vital food factor is missing. Rats whose diet was lacking in the vitamin B complex survived sleeping sickness better than better-fed rodents. Ill-fed rats infested with an intestinal parasite were not helped by a pantothenic acid (vitamin) preparation in their diet; instead, the parasites flourished on it. So did the parasites in chickens infected with bird malaria...