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...bees. There is no doubt that the Africanized bees, known as Apis mellifera scutellata, have exceptionally nasty tempers. While they are slightly smaller and no more venomous than their European cousins, they go out of their way to attack, and they do so in overwhelming swarms. Ever since a batch of imported Africanized bees was accidentally released near São Paulo by a Brazilian scientist in 1957, they have been buzzing northward at a rate of more than 200 miles a year. They have killed thousands of animals and some 150 people during their migration. They entered Honduras about half...
...Shanghai fever is especially acute in the trendy area of Xintiandi, where the Lakeville apartments are probably China's most coveted properties. The next batch of Lakeville units isn't expected to be finished until mid-2006, but nearly 1,000 people have already registered to be notified as soon as they go on sale. Shu Yin Lee, who runs a property syndicate that made millions by buying five Lakeville penthouses while they were under construction, says he gets calls every day from agents with clients eager to buy them. But even after doubling his money, he's holding...
...lustrations currently sweeping Central and Eastern Europe first broke out in Slovakia, where late last year the government-sponsored Institute of National Memory (UPN) began publishing the names of some 10,000 alleged collaborators from the files of the former secret police, the StB. The final batch of names was released earlier this month. Among the accused is Archbishop Ján Sokol, 71, one of the country's three most senior prelates and an opponent of the communist regime. Yet according to StB records, Sokol agreed to collaborate with that regime just as it was collapsing in 1989. Sokol...
...small table in Eliot Square’s Cafe Paradiso Sunday afternoon, sixth-year doctoral student Lauren J. Willig is sipping a latte and marking up a thick sheaf of papers with red ink. But she’s not poring over the rushed contentions of a new batch of undergraduate midterms, or a draft of her dissertation on British history of the Tudor-Stuart period, or even a judicial opinion for her second year at Harvard Law School...
...scam didn't hack ChoicePoint's network, Lee hastens to point out, a little disingenuously. Nothing so elaborate was necessary. The perp armed himself with phony letterheads and ordered electronic files by fax at $150 a batch. After a number of successful attempts, a ChoicePoint employee finally got wise and alerted police. When cops nabbed Olatunji Oluwatosin, 41, at a Copymat shop in Hollywood, he had five cell phones and three credit cards on him, each under different names. He has pleaded no contest to identity theft, but authorities say others must be involved, since the stolen data have been...