Word: ant
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...joke or a curse, a relic of the days when the town was run by guys whose middle name was "the." He enjoys banter about guns, was almost cast in Martin Scorsese's gangster epic Casino, and still refers to Mob characters like "Lefty" Rosenthal and Tony (the Ant) Spilotro as "the boys...
Though Leverich's style has too much of the plod-and-pile of the worker ant, he does manage to capture the leaping grasshopper's heart of his subject. He brings to life the young man whose journals are a thicket of exclamation points and who wrote in praise of the "excessive romanticism which is youth and which is the best and purest part of life...
...James S. Hoyte, assistant to the President of Harvard University for diversity and affirmative action and former attorney; "The Emerging Republican Party in the South: A 'Gtass Roots' Perspective," led by James Lombard, former Republican leader of the Florida State House of Representative; "Barbarians at the Gate Independent ant Third Party Politics," led by R. Clayton Mulford, manager for H. Ross Perot's 1992 presidential campaign and general counsel for Perot's United We Stand America...
Harvard is full of experts, in fact--including the world's leading authority on ants, Baird Professor of Science E.O. Wilson. Wilson recently received his second Pulitzer Prize for The Ants, a gigantic volume that served as a basis for the computer game SimAnt. His popular Core course, "Evolutionary Biology," contains a large unit on ant social behavior...
Still worried about the pesticides' impact on the environment, government scientists think they may have a better answer to the fire-ant menace. Patterson's lab at the Agriculture Department is studying a tiny parasitic fly that lays its eggs right on the fire ant's body. The fly maggots then eat their way into the ant's head and eventually sever the head from the body. Best of all, the fly seems to attack only fire ants. If laboratory and field tests show that the fly is indeed safe to use, says Patterson, the natural ant killer could...