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Mark Acerenza, Chicago freshman, blocks a shot attempt during a soccer practice. Acerenza was trying out Thursday for a goalie position on the KU soccer club. The club plays its first exhibition game Saturday.
Tomato plants bite back at bugs by secreting natural insecticide
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — When a bug bites a leaf on a tomato plant, the plant fights back by secreting a protein that gives the attacking insect indigestion. Scientists now have synthesized a key part of this process and hope to insert it into other plants.
Clarence A. Ryan, a Washington State University biologist, said that as an insect crunches up portions of a leaf or stem on a tomato plant, the cells release a sort of chemical warning that circulates throughout the plant.
"The insects stop growing and eventually die," said Ryan. "It is a natural phenomenon."
This signal chemical, called a polypeptide, causes genes in all the
Although earlier studies showed that the tomato produced such a natural insecticide, Ryan said it had never been clear that a polypeptide triggered production of the chemical.
"Polypeptides in animals are used to signal metabolic processes, immune processes and even pain," said A. Goland of the University of New York before been found in a plant system."
Some TV shows never make it thank goodness
The Associated Press
NEW VORK- This fall if you grumble at some new TV series, count your blessings. It could have been far worse. For every show that gets on each year, many do not.
For example, in 1980 you didn't 'face Ethel is an Elephant,' about a New York photographer who shares his apartment with a baby elephani abandoned by a circus. Yes, really.
A year earlier you got to miss "The Power Within," about a Vietnam hero who is struck by lightning, develops X-ray vision and the power to shoot electric bolts from his fingers, and goes out on secret missions.
Each was a pilot that didn't get picked up for a series. So are 299 others in "Unsold TV Pilots," a new paper-book back by Lee Goldberg, a writer who chronicles series ideas that croaked.
His book of broken pilots, covering the period 1955-1990, contains many fascinating, little-known facts, such as:
- There was an NBC pilot in 1984 called "Yazoo." It was about a widowed journalist "who goes fishing one day, fails asleep in the boat and wakes up in a magical world called Yazoo, populated by the Peppercorn Puppets."
— Movie heartthrob Alec Baldwin once played a Florida siren in love with a lady astronaut in, "The Sheriff and the Astronaut."
— Before success in *Quantum Leap*, "Scott Bakula did an ABC pilot"I-Man," playing a cabbie exposed to a strange gas that makes him indestructable. A year earlier, he did a CBS pilot," Infiltrator", playing a scientist who accidentally merges his molecules with those of a space satellite.
— There once was a pilot called "Jeremiah of Jacob's Neck." Never mind what it was about. The title explains everything.
You kind of wish the ABC version of "House of Wax" had made it. The music was by a citizen named William Lava.
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