Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Apiculturist Warwick Kerr figured he had some perfectly good reasons for bringing 20 African queen bees into his native Brazil nine years ago. Though it is known to be ferocious, the African bee produces 30% more honey than either the Italian or German bee that long dominated Brazilian beekeeping: it will even work and make honey in weather that slows down other bees. Besides, Kerr planned to crossbreed his Africans to Produce a more gentle bee. What he got instead was a bee with a disposition so nasty that it now threatens the lives and livelihood of almost every beekeeper...
Hive After Hive. From those 20 imported African queens have come as many as 450,000 new bees a year almost none of which inherited the traits of the Italians and Germans that fathered them. Quick to anger, even quicker to swarm, the new Africans lave turned on Italian and German bees tor no apparent reason, killing off hive after hive. Moreover, the new males passed their bad blood on to new females, who went on propagating the angry strain. "We thought that when they got acclimated they would become civilized," says Father João Oscar Nedlel...
...more of Africa's new businessmen are not only university-trained and experienced but surprisingly sophisticated in trade and finance. In Equatorial Africa, it is no longer unusual to see a $200,000 letter of credit emerging from the folds of a native robe. Nowhere is the new African businessman doing better than in Nigeria, black Africa's most populous and most prosperous nation. With a population of 55 million and an economy that grows 4% each year, the number of Nigerian millionaires is growing almost as fast as the country itself...
Bayo Braithwaite, 36, one of Nigeria's younger businessmen, left a British insurance company to found a firm that would write life insurance on Nigerians which the British underwriters avoided. So successful has Braithwaite been that his African Alliance Insurance Co Ltd occupies a six-story Lagos home office and has 300 bush-beating agents. Braithwaite lives in an elegant house in suburban Ikoyi, where glass and concrete are deliberately intermixed with African folk art to prove that "the two need never clash...
...Physical Review Letters, Reines reported that he and a team of Case Institute and South African scientists detected seven natural neutrinos-not many, but a hopeful beginning. These neutrinos, each of which registered energies well in excess of 10 billion electron volts, presumably were produced by the interaction of primary cosmic rays with the earth's atmosphere. Except for their superhigh energies, the natural neutrinos appeared to be about the same as those created...