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Left to die a natural death, the insects would decompose and the next rain would wash their internal cargo of long-lived pesticides and toxic metals back into the water supply. But Metcalf proposes breaking the natural cycle. Since the insects are attracted to light, they can easily be caught in standard, electrically illuminated traps. One night Metcalf captured 300,000 adult midges in a single trap. They can then be burned at high enough temperatures to break down the pesticides...
...Abilene, Texas; Paul B, Lieberman of Eliot House and Flushing, N. Y.; David N. Little of Leverett House and Williston, Vt.; Seth B. J. Mandel of Dudley House and Brookline; Matthew H. Naitove of Winthrop House and Hanover, N. H.; Thomas E. Platt of Leverett House and Lake Stevens, Wash...
Last week the Suffolk County legislature took a step unprecedented in the U.S. It banned the sale of virtually all detergents used to wash clothes or clean homes. The ban, which is effective March 1, will be mostly a test of housewives' restraint. Although the law imposes penalties (up to $250 and 15 days in jail) on sellers of detergents, anybody who wants them badly enough can buy them legally in adjoining Nassau County. The real problem is that the detergent industry has not yet developed substitute soaps that work as well and also break down in nature. Even...
...Greatest Musical Ever Sung is a wash-your-dirty-dacron pageant based on the life and death and life of Jesus. The melodies are old show tunes like "There's No Business Like Show Business" fitted to ecclesiastic lyrics. ("Hello, Dolly!" is somehow rendered as "Hail, Mary!") All the nastiness that anyone might have dreamed of perpetrating while whittling away Sunday mornings in blue-lit religious classes is right there on stage; in fact, at several points during the show, one had the uncanny feeling that You-Know-Who would have turned over in His You-Know-What...
Those arrested were: Ronald Brazao, 23, and John Brown, 22, of Somerville; Richard M. Elwyn, 22, William S. Anderson, 22, and David Tarlo, 22, of Cambridge; Marya Merrick, 22, of Everett, Wash.: and George Katsificas, 22, of Boston...