Word: bees
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bee Dung...
...governement has insisted that "yellow rain" in East Asia is evidence of chemical warfare used by the Soviet Union. Not so, says Cabot Professor of Natural Sciences Matthew Meselson. Instead, he charged in a report published in Scientific American magazine, the yellow rain is really nothing more than bee feces...
Other speculation on Laxalt's withdrawal focuses on his $250 million libel suit against the Sacramento Bee and two sister newspapers. A 1983 Bee article alleged that nearly $2 million was skimmed from the Ormsby House, a casino- hotel Laxalt established in Carson City after his gubernatorial term ended in 1971. Laxalt denies that the suit has any bearing on his announcement, but the case is moving toward trial, and the newspaper, in support of its case, has amassed boxes of potentially embarrassing notes and documents...
...elementary school in + Oakland, where black girls like to chant their jump-rope numbers in Chinese. "See you manana," one student shouts with a Vietnamese accent. "Ciao!" cries another, who has never been anywhere near Italy. And let it be noted that the boy who won the National Spelling Bee in Washington last month was Balu Natarajan, 13, who was born in India, now lives in a suburb of Chicago, and speaks Tamil at home. "Milieu" was the word with which he defeated 167 other competitors. Let it also be noted that Hung Vu and Jean Nguyen in May became...
...author is a sometime trucker who, for the past seven years, has been using a three-quarter-ton pickup to deliver honey from her bee farm to retailers around the country. She sleeps in truck stops because they are safe and coffee is always available...