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MOST HOMEOWNERS WOULD READILY AGREE THAT the only good termite is a dead termite, but the one unearthed on a dig in the Dominican Republic was better than most. The insect, trapped between 25 million and 30 million years ago in a blob of tree sap that hardened into amber, has yielded genetic material that is the oldest ever studied, by at least 8 million years. It has also resolved a long-simmering dispute over the family tree of cockroaches...
...puzzle about the relationship between termites and roaches: Did the former evolve from the latter, or did both come from a single, common ancestor species? There were arguments for both options -- until a team at the American Museum of Natural History applied PCR to the genetic material of the amber-clad termite. DNA doesn't lie: the cockroach is not the termite's parent after all, but only its sibling. Which says nothing about how to get rid of either...
Currently very popular is the leather cord within African trading bead on it, she said. Also ingreat demand are amber products. Chanel-typenecklaces with big pearls and beaded clothing...
...SELF-CONGRATULATORY RITUAL, repeated every day, every week, all over America. Separate the clear glass bottles from the green and amber ones. Place the newsprint in one basket, mixed white paper in another, the reams of used computer paper in a third. Haul the whole lot out to the curb. There. You've just done your bit for humanity: you've recycled. It's Miller time...
...fatigue is understandable. Last Monday -- the day before Clinton swept California and five other primaries to put him over the top in delegates -- he embarked on a grueling tour of California's media markets. It was the kind of old-fashioned campaign day that probably should be preserved in amber and sent to the Smithsonian because, as Perot has demonstrated, presidential candidates no longer have to put their bodies on the line like this to get TV attention. First stop was the tiny San Joaquin Valley farm town of Kerman, a 40-minute motorcade ride from the Fresno airport...