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AMERICANS NOW SPEND $6 billion a year on snack foods and only $4.8 billion on fresh fruits, says New York State's Cooperative Extension Service . . . . James H. Whitcomb, a geophysicist and senior research fellow at Cal Tech predicts A CALIFORNIA EARTHQUAKE of between 5.5 and 6.5 magnitude on the Richter scale before April 1977 . . . . Brazil and Argentina, longtime South American rivals and two of the latest nations to join the nuclear club, are already involved in an unspoken but very real ATOMIC ARMS RACE. . . . XYLITOL (zy-lit-tall), the latest "artificial" sweetener to hit the market isn't artificial at ail (it's extracted from many kinds of vegetation, especiallyin Finlandbirch trees) . . . . MEDICAL EXPENSES are rising so rapidly that Dr. George Dunlop, professor of surgery at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, expects Medicare to cost $2 trillion by the year 2000 (that's if the whole plan doesn't collapse before them . . . . So many (4,040) mountain climbers now visit Nepal that the oncepristine trails of MT. EVEREST NATIONAL PARK have become "the world's highest junkyard". The base of the planet's tallest mountain is being posted with "Don't Litter Everest" signs in three languages . . . . THE PRIMITIVE "MORNING AFTER" BIRTH CONTROL practiced by rural residents of India's Rajasthan state (carrot seeds are chewed by women for several days after intercourse) really works, according to New Delhi scientists. The seeds, they say, act just like estrogenic agents in inhibiting implantation of a fertilized egg in the uterus . . . . And the PEACE CORPS (remember the Peace Corps?! is still looking for volunteers with agriculture degrees. If you qualify, write The Peace Corps,, Action, Office of Recruitment, Box F-65, Washington, D.C. 20525.

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