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Dustin Tyler Caroll survived words like tergiversation, sorbefacient and obtenebrate to win the 58th annual National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. today. The 14-year old from Memphis will receive $5,000 and the ever-lasting admiration of wordsmiths everywhere. The winning word? Xanthosis, a term for a skin discoloration...
Through a teardrop of ancient amber -- fossilized tree sap as hard as plastic and as translucent as glass -- the scientists beheld their quarry: a small stingless bee that shared the earth with giant mastodons. With sterile instruments and gloved hands, microbiologist Raul Cano and his student Monica Borucki proceeded with an improbable experiment. First they delicately extracted the bee's diminutive digestive tract. Then they placed the tissues in nutrient-rich broth. Within a week the mixture turned cloudy, a sign that bacterial spores, dormant inside the bee for 25 million to 40 million years, had suddenly, miraculously surged back...
...life. Down through the ages, sudden flows of sticky, honey-colored tree resin have ensnared all manner of small life forms, including beetles, spiders, and even lizards and frogs. Moreover, as this natural polymer hardens, it becomes virtually airtight and waterproof. Not only are extinct organisms like Cano's bee preserved in exquisite anatomical detail, but biological molecules such as dna appear to be largely protected from deterioration. When something gets caught in amber, says Wheeler, it's like putting it into a time capsule...
...Stars & Stripes found a mysterious breeze that allowed it to make up a seemingly insurmountable 4-min., 42-boat-length lead on the final leg to overtake Mighty Mary. No wonder that each morning, as Conner's boat leaves the dock, loudspeakers blast the team's anthem: the Bee Gees' Stayin' Alive...
This interest in politics may have led him, at age 17, to enter college in Grand Prairie, Canada, to study political science. Throughout his college years, he worked odd jobs, ranging from bee keeping to working on a railroad with Cree Indians...