.CHARACTER IS Curing Americans to all kinds of spectacles. On April 8th millions watched a total solar energy eclipse. Several will certainly be much less magnetized when, in the coming times, trillions of cicadas show up in the nation's Midwest as well as south-east. The throng will certainly be actually unusually big because two forms of the pest-- Family XIII as well as Brood XIX-- are arising simultaneously. The last opportunity they seemed at the same time was in 1803, when Thomas Jefferson was actually head of state. Why carry out the cicadas possess such an unusual life process?