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...looked ready to leave her tuna melt and giant chocolate chip cookie and pounce on me, the would-be assassin. So there's the Secret Service, I thought. They seemed invisible until you actually looked at them. I smiled a nice innocent smile and slid past, following our menacing bee-line towards the First Daughter and her luncheon companions. Having passed the security barrier, Chelsea looked up at us in an encouraging way and waited for our greeting...
...bewildering array of breakaway treatments, including chiropractic, colonic irrigation, meditation, homeopathy, naturopathy, hypnotherapy, music therapy, folk medicine, guided imagery and Shiatsu massage. More than 1,000 homeopathic medicines are sold over the counter, along with a bewildering variety of vitamins, minerals, herbal remedies, fat burners, passion promoters and bee pollen...
DIED. BROTHER ADAM, 98, British beekeeper and Benedictine monk; in Buckfast, England. Sent as a boy of 12 to St. Mary's Abbey in Buckfast, German-born Brother Adam crossbred various bee stocks to produce the celebrated "Buckfast bee," a gentle, disease-resistant, prolific honey-producer. In 1991 the U.S. Department of Agriculture imported Buckfast queens to replace American bee populations killed by a viral epidemic...
Most conspicuous of the pollinators in crisis are honeybees, the pollinators par excellence among insects. Since being imported from Europe more than 375 years ago, they have spread rapidly throughout the New World. Honeybees typically pollinate 15% of the U.S.'s crops, but lately the bees have been hard hit. Already debilitated by a nasty mite infection, thousands of colonies were exterminated during last winter's unusually severe cold. During the honeybee heyday after World War II, the U.S. had nearly 6 million hives. Now there are less than half that many, and mites continue to plague the remaining colonies...
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