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...such nectar would spoil in the hive before it could be concentrated into long-keeping honey. A 20% sugar content is satisfactory, and 40% makes the bee wildly enthusiastic. It sucks up some nectar and marks the flower with its own scent from a gland on its abdomen. Having thus staked a claim, it heads back to the hive to spread the glad news...
Wags for Distance. To tell about sources 100 meters or more from the hive, the scout bee does another dance. It wags its abdomen from side to side, runs forward a few steps, turns around, runs forward and wags again. The more rapid the turning and wagging, the closer the honey lies. Dr. von Frisch fed scout bees at varied distances from the hive and timed the tempo of their dancing. He found that when they made nine or ten complete dance cycles in 15 seconds, it meant that the honey flowers were 100 meters away. Seven cycles meant...
...close to zero. Author Lincoln is careful to point out that most women don't need synthetic hormone treatments. The hormones, she writes, may be dangerous and sometimes produce unpleasant "side effects" such as "sore full breasts . . . dull aching or a kind of premenstrual congestion in the lower abdomen...
Unfortunately, Dr. Rosa emphasized, puncturing through the abdomen to the bag of waters to draw off amniotic fluid is likely to be dangerous to both mother & child. In short, the test is only a scientific curiosity, and no use at all in general practice...
...safety, the surgeons report after using it in 50 operations (in which they drew off an average of 3½ pints of blood). But, they warn, so drastic a procedure is not to be lightly used-and never used for an operation on a limb or in the abdomen, where bleeding is easily controlled. In fact, they say, it should only be used in "cases in which the surgeon encounters bleeding which would endanger life or function...