Word: ant
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...long list of reasons you should be glad you're not an ant, add this: You'd have to forget about having sex. You'd also have to forget about even trying. Sneak off for a little insectile assignation and the other members of the colony would know immediately - and attack you for it. Entomologists have long known this was the practice in the ant world, but what they didn't know is the forensic science that allows the community to uncover the crime. Now, thanks to a study in the current issue of Cell Biology, they...
...said City Councillor Brian P. Murphy ’86-’87. “Certainly, for every pension system in the state, it’s been a rough year. But we’re fortunate that, because we behave more like an ant than a grasshopper, we’re more prepared to handle the economic winter than anybody else...
...Koenigs says he was forced to choose between his beloved ant farm, with 800 insects, and his education due to the College’s “unreasonable” restrictions on pets...
...life for an ant scheme. That’s the principle that Chinese administrators put in practice last week when they executed Wang Zhendong for fraud. Zhendong had duped investors out of over 400 million dollars with a bogus plan to breed ants with aphrodisiac effects. China thus established a clear policy of (very) tough justice for white-collar criminals who operate on a large scale...
...Consider that the multi-billion-dollar scale of Enron executives’ criminal conduct and its destructive effect on innocent people dwarfs the ant scam; however, former CEO Jeffrey Skilling received just 24 years in prison, and two of his associates (and accomplices) could win parole after just five years behind bars...