Word: bee
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...yellow rain" from airplanes. If these charges are correct, the Soviet Union would be in violation of two international treaties, made in 1925 and 1972. Last spring, Matthew S. Meselson, Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences, challenged the State Department's evidence and conclusions, claiming yellow rain to be merely bee excrement...
Meselson: I must disagree with that, because it is the Hmong who handed in the samples and said "this is what comes from the airplanes." Some of these absolutely do not come from planes. They are bee feces. So when someone presents you with a yellow material and says "this came out of an airplane or out of a weapon,"--bee feces don't come out of airplanes or weapons--and you know that he's wrong about that, that should tell you that everything else he has said needs to be reevaluated...
Meselson: That I can't say. I know only the things that we can establish by objective, scientific criteria here. I have no reason to believe that they've been put up to anything. But there's just no way around it, bee feces cannot, do not, and never come out of airplanes...
...Nations officials, British officials. Every one, with no exception, turned out to be pollen, but people alleged that this was an agent of warfare, so it fits the definition. What we've done is to prove essentially that yellow rain is not an agent of war, that it is bee feces. The army's view, the last time they enunciated a view, was that the yellow rain does contain pollen. They say it's because the Communists collect pollen that has been gathered by insects previously, and face it with toxin. What we think we have done is to rule...
...practical proposition. She wanted the scholarship money ($25,000), and she wanted the exposure. She wants to be a star. She says until this year she had not given a thought to competing in the pageant. But the executive director of the Miss America Greater Syracuse pageant put the bee in her bonnet, explaining the benefits, and off she went, becoming Miss Greater Syracuse, Miss New York and, ultimately, Miss America, who now, upon leaving David Letterman's studio at NBC, received a hand-delivered letter from the William Morris Agency proposing representation. Back at the Plaza, there...